Re: Mandatory testing before marriage

[Guest guest]

Dear Forum,

The demand for mandatory testing of male and female before marriage is raised

many times. I believe that the rational before that must be to empower woman and

to further check the spread of virus among the women.

But, I think the objective of restricting the spread of virus among woman would

be difficult to achieve as the certificates stating that the person is not

positive and is free from virus could easily be made available.

The possible solution may be to increase awareness among woman and encouraging

both man and woman for voluntary testing and counseling. I feel that there is

still gap between requirement and availability of the VCCTC. Accessibility of

these VCCTCs are also a big problem.

The people should be encouraged for voluntary testing and counseling and the

development of social groups for facilitating the process and accessibility of

VCCTCs could be a possible and feasible way of doing it.

Let’s try to make woman empowered to take her own decision about her own life.

Laws really can’t protect the rights. If laws can protect the rights there could

not be any injustice in the world.

Regards,

Farhad Ali

E-mail: <farhadali4u@...>