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Hiv Aids In Namibia Essay

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CAVENDISH UNIVERSITY DISSERTATION

THE CRIMINALIZATION AND PROSECUTION OF WILFUL OR RECKLESS HIV/AIDS TRANSMISSION IN NAMIBIA

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the Degree By the Cavendish University Zambia (CUZ) requirement’s for the award of Bachelor of Law (LLB)

Kandiwapa Victoria N. Nangombe
Student number: 004-003

APRIL/2017
Abstract

For centuries, endemic infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis have taken their toll on the population of Namibia, as they have in many parts of Africa. The public health significance of these diseases, however, has taken on a new priority in Namibia since 1986, when the first case of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) was diagnosed in the country.

The spread of epidemic has gotten out of control like a wild bush fire has and captured the attention of many such as the politicians, economists, sociologists, lawyers, judiciary and police officers all over the world and mobilized them to curb or control it by finding solutions that limit the extent of its transmission. HIV transmission is reflected and imagined through the textual crimes against the person.

Through this research, I have set out to investigate the …show more content…

However, those antibodies are not detectable by testing in all victims.29 Due to this unclear window between infection and detection, criminal prosecution may fail for inability to prove causation against carriers who may have conveyed the virus during the dormant mode.30 Full blown AIDS is diagnosed when an infected person’s beneficent CD4+ cells plunge below 200 per micro liter of

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