Ezulwini, Swaziland - A proposal by a Swaziland member of parliament that HIV-positive people be branded on the buttocks has been met with outrage.
This week Swaziland MP and leader of the gospel group Ncandweni Christ Ambassadors, Timothy Myeni, told a leadership workshop for fellow MPs that Swaziland needed a mandatory law for testing people for HIV.
"Before having sex with anyone, people will have to check their partners' buttocks before proceeding," Myeni told the workshop.
Swaziland Aids Support Organisation spokesman Vusi Matsebula said: "His utterances represent the views of someone who is still sleeping around.
"Maybe the branding will help him know what kind of a person he is about to sleep with." - African Eye News Service