Abstract

HIV/AIDS continues to ravish society and yet legislators and health care practitioners overlook the impact the disease has on a social level. Advocating for mandatory HIV/AIDS testing as a means of curtailing stigma is a necessity. This paper proposes that mandatory HIV/AIDS testing be considered as a means of curtailing the spread of stigma. The paper discusses the causes of stigma, the ways in which stigma is spread and a solution as to how stigma can be abated through mandatory HIV/AIDS testing.

Key words: Stigmatisation, discrimination, mandatory HIV/AIDS testing.