CONFIRMED
HIV positive South Africans that volunteer to be marked near their genital area
with a tatoo depicting their status,
will in addition to free counselling and medication be paid an equivalent of
N840, 000 (50 000 Rands) each, according to a
bill newly signed by President Jacob Zuma.
The
bill, according to a report by Radio City, a local South African radio station,
is widely regarded as one of the greatest steps in the history of combating the
HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country which has the highest HIV prevalence in
Africa.
Zuma
who is reported to have volunteered to be the first South African citizen to
get his HIV status tatted near his genitals, however announced that only the first 10 million
people (who already tested positive) to volunteer to have their HIV statuses
tatted on their genitals would be given the money in form of a funeral expense
voucher.
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