TATOO FOR HIV POSITIVE PEOPLE, HOW REASONABLE?

TATOO FOR HIV POSITIVE PEOPLE, HOW REASONABLE?

The South African President, who is also HIV positive, has created a lot of controversial responses from idealists, human rights activists and social analysts.

President Jacob Zuma was reported to have passed a bill which will allow the govt. to put a tattoo at the private parts of the tested HIV positive people in the country as a way of reducing the contacts of the disease which has infected an estimate of 6.3million people in the country with premature death records of over 300,000 people from those who could not control their sexual urge, in his words he said:

“The mark is to protect those who can’t say no to sex. I mean if you can’t read between the lines you should read between the legs because that’s where the status would be tatted”

However, this isn’t going without an enticement as the gvt will make available for the first 10million people that are tatted N840,000 (50,000 rands/ $3,507  ) in form of funeral expense voucher in addition to free counseling and medication.

Some people have commended this idea while some have condemned it. Here we want to look into the idea which came up from an HIV positive man himself, the President of south Africa, Jacob Zuma, how practicable? What are the possible fallouts and achievements?

 

Stigma:

This is the most criticized aspect of the bill. It becomes a stigma where your status becomes known by others prior to your confessing it personally, hence seen as an infringement of fundamental human right. But how does anyone stigmatize a patient whose status is only visible at the private part?

We only reveal our private part in ideal to our doctor, nurse or spouse. As regards the doctor and nurse, of course it’s mandatory to give a fore-hand information about your status to them so as to know precautions to take and medical attention deserved, so no stigma can be found here.

 But as per the spouse, (this is only applicable to a boyfriend or girlfriend as your husband or wife should have known your status), you only expose your private part when romance or sex is about to ensued, if you never revealed your status before exposing your private part to them its either you are wreckless, helpless, or wicked intention to luring them into unsafe sex and thereby infect and spread the virus which in my opinion is a criminal act against humanity. Even where the HIV positive person intend to insist on  the use of condom, he or she must have informed the intending partner of his/her status and it remains objective for the intending partner to take the risk of condom which we all know is not 100% safe.

The Incentive:

$3,507 is a lot of money considering the poverty level in Africa. In Nigeria for instance, it’s enough to start a small scale business, that is talking about N840, 000.00. What’s the implication of this? We may have people who will voluntarily get infected to secure the incentive with hope to start a living with the money and manage his/her health with gvt medication provision. We have people who are homeless and jobless who sleeps under the bridges and abandoned properties, people like this are already predisposed to health hazards and may also opt for living with HIV and having money to start a living.

Preferably, restricting the incentive to those already infected as at the date of passing the bill as the only benefactors of the money would not encourage the fear as discussed above. Whoever decides to voluntarily infect him/herself for financial gain will find it useless as the date of infection is pegged as at passing the bill and of course if those as at that date are not spreading the virus a lot will be achieved to curb the spread. We are talking about 10million HIV positive people been avoided to infect others.

Also, the fact that there may be others untatted HIV positive people out there who has not benefited from the bill will also put a check on the freedom to unsafe sex which may become the norms as partners without the tattoo may feel too safe to have unprotected sex thereby increasing STDs and unwanted pregnancies.

Mark of the Beast?

Some people have condemned this to be an act towards the end time sign, labeling it Mark of the Beast. I bet to differ on this. We overrate the prophecy or should I say we misplace it. This has nothing to do with the mark as prophesized in the Bible afteral we have not been given the graphics of the sign. The Bible mark of the beast is not for the sick, but for the agents of Satan. So I overrule this aspect of the people’s agitation.

The Unprecedented:

Suppose an HIV person who has been tatted becomes negative after series of treatment, what happens to the tattoo? This is the only aspect that worries me. Are they going to have another tattoo to counter the previous? This remains a question that should be open form debate and subsequent solution.

My submission:

Deliberate spreading the HIV virus is a crime against humanity and can only be checked by this odd infamous bill. Many are out there deliberately spreading the virus as act of revenge or criminal. Rapists will think twice once they notice the tatted sign on their victims, a rape victim would be energized to fight back and resist rape after seeing the tatted sign on his or her assailant.

People will have their destiny in their hands and their choice to go ahead with unsafe sex after seeing the tattoo remains their sole responsibility. Those who out of desperation or uncontrollable urge or under drug influence had sex with an HIV tatted person will know they have gotten infected without test, or better still will quickly go for test and got to know their status thereby saving the risk of AIDS.

More lives would be saved that will surpass the fear of ”stigma” that is been so debated.

Contributions are welcome; we are all open to learning.
However, please note that the South African govt is yet to confirm this  viral news but I choose to discuss par adventure it is true.

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DO YOU KNOW YOUR MOBILE PHONE CAN DO THESE?

A lot of us carry mobile phones around without optimizing its benefits. It’s so sad that we let ourselves into so many rigors and deny ourselves some ease just because we are ignorant of other hidden benefits of our mobile phones especially the sophisticated ones. But let me share with you the few ones that may influence our daily lives amongst numerous benefits that may not make much meaning to some of us because of the technicalities and scientific natures of such benefits.

Among these relevant benefits are:

MAKING EMERGENCY CALLS

I am aware so many of us may be informed on this, but we still have some people who it never crossed their minds to use it when the need arises. We will also give some hints you may never have thought of. So let’s have a brief on it.

Dialing 112 from your mobile phone is the Emergency number worldwide; meaning anywhere you are it will work for you. The good thing about this is that even if you have no phone, you can make use of any phone around you especially if it’s the emergency victim phone that you do not have access to the password because the emergency number will dial even while phone is locked.

You don’t even have to bother whether the Sim service is available or not, i.e: if the phone has no network on it the 112 number once dialed will search and make use of any available network within your location coverage area and established your call without any charges.

OPENING YOUR KEYLESS CAR DOORS REMOTELY FROM WHATEVER DISTANCE.

Strange as this may sound, its for real. This is strictly for keyless car doors. HAVE YOU LOCKED UP YOUR KEYS IN THE CAR? Maybe you are miles away from your extra key which is probably at home and you have locked up the key with you in the car. All you need to do is call anyone at home or closer to where the extra key is to pick up the keys while the call is still ongoing, the person should point the key to the cell-phone at the other end steady while you at your end move a foot away from the car holding your own cell phone which is on call one foot away from the car, you then ask the person with the extra keys to press the unlock button and the magic is done, your car is unlocked. Marveled? More to come.

  

REGAINING 50% EXTRA BATTERY POWER WITHOUT RECHARGING

Is your phone battery power very low?

Do you have important call but your phone battery cannot take you through the conversation?

Are you expecting an alert and your phone battery is beeping “shutting down”?

So many factors that may make us feel down on low battery and seem so hopeless.

HOPE IS HERE, YOUR PHONES HAVE RESERVED HIDDEN BATTERY POWER, how do you access this?

Dial *3370# on your phone, it will restart the phone and empower it with 50% battery power as it comes up again. Now this is like your car fuel tank extra that would be replaced at every refilling of your tank. Meaning the hidden extra power will be replaced when next you charge your phone.

ALERT ATM FRAUD

Many people have fall victim of ATM fraud where robbers or extorters have followed you or caught you while at the ATM machine asking you either at gun or knife point to make withdrawal from the machine.

In as much as you may not be able to fight back or escape from withdrawing the money you have an opportunity to inform security that you are making withdrawal from the ATM forcefully by inputting you pin in reverse on the ATM machine e.g. if your PIN is 3456 you will input 6543, the machine will pay you but will simultaneously trigger a call of distress from your location to the security operatives who will catch up with the robbers at the ATM or while escaping. This technology is yet to be well utilized though but it’s been shown on CTV by crime stoppers.

DISABLE YOUR STOLEN PHONE SO IT BECOMES USELESS FOR THE THIEF

It can be so hurting when someone’s expensive phone is stolen, or maybe the cost of the phone isn’t anything to you but they won’t return your sim and memory card that may contain vital and important information, pictures and contact.

When we lost a phone especially with private pictures in it, we become worried if the phone gets to blackmailers. I always advice private, personal pictures should always be stored on phone memory because where the phone is disabled, the pictures cannot be accessed. But where we store in external memory, our pictures may become viral on social media as it can be removed from the phone and accessed via other phones, laptops or pc. Its therefore a good news that we can get back at the thief and save our discreet pictures, documents and private information from leaking via phone loss.

HOW DO WE GO ABOUT THIS? Every cell phone has a serial number that can be retrieved by dialing the code (*#06#) on the phone which immediately displays A 15 digit numbers, copy this number and keep in a safe easily accessible place, I suggest you store it in the draft of your email or store as important mail so that if your phone was snatched you can go to the nearest cyber café asap to retrieve the number, call your network provider to disable the phone. By this, even if the thief changes sim, the phone remains disabled and useless and all that is in the phone save from leakage except content of the external memory.

Now you can optimize the use of your cell phones, its not just for selfies, chats and calls.

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