A controversial plan to make HIV testing compulsory in South Africa has been criticised by campaigners who argue it would breach patients’ human rights.
Politicians proposed that anyone visiting a doctor would be automatically tested for the virus.
Western Cape health minister Theuns Botha said the system would be a ‘major onslaught’ in the battle against Aids in South Africa, which has the largest number of HIV sufferers in the world.
But South Africa’s human rights commission has criticised the proposals amid claims that forcing tests on patients would be illegal because it violates the public’s right to privacy.
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