To test, or not to test

Everyone has something to say about mandatory pre-marital HIV screening in couples. The question is, will testing help curb the spread of the disease?

HERE we go again. The debate on whether HIV-screening should be a pre-condition to marital bliss once again started when Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak, who also chairs the Cabinet Committee on AIDS, announced the committee’s decision to make HIV-screening mandatory for all Muslim couples as part of their pre-marital course next year.