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Malaysian MP Withdraws HIV Remarks

by Sreeraman on December 29, 2008 at 11:43 AM AIDS/HIV News

A senior opposition politician withdrew his statement that people with HIV should be banned from marriage, after he was criticised by AIDS activists, a report said Sunday.

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Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin, of the conservative Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) and chief minister of the northern state of Perak, said people with HIV should be allowed to marry and have children.

"No one is out to sideline HIV carriers," he was quoted as saying by the New Sunday Times newspaper.

However he also said that people with HIV should be housed in special isolated wards when in hospital and when marrying should be required to prove to their future spouse that they are receiving medical treatment.

Nizar appeared to chance his stance after last week when he was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times newspaper: "I think it is a gross error to allow somebody very sick like that, an HIV carrier, to marry."

"If there's any breeding - sorry for having to use that word - the embryo will also carry the same virus. It's very unjust to the child," he was quoted as saying.

Deputy premier Najib Razak had earlier said that all Muslim couples would have to undergo mandatory HIV screening before they wed - a test so far only applied in certain states.

Irene Fernandez, director of the women's group Tenaganita, said the government "should not be making such choices for people."

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Illiteracy is also responsible for HIV PEOPLE WHO IS LEAVING IN OUR RURAl AREA ARE NOT AWARE OF IT. SO WE SHOULD TAKE PLEDGE TO ERADICATE Illiteracy IN OUR SOCIETY.

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