In the news yesterday, there was this piece of news of how this couple in India celebrated their love by giving each other Aids-free certificates as a pre-wedding present. In an Aids stricken society, they figured the best present they can give each other is that of being disease free. Plus, it sets the platform for a worry-free marriage.
I was totally fascinated the idea, and think it should be implemented in Singapore as a mandatory pre-marriage measure. Now, with the test clinic set in some dubious setting, and making such a super big deal out of it, it makes it distasteful not to mention inconvenient for anybody to do a simple Aids test, and what happens is that, the number of Aids cases is on the rise, with the free-love lifestyles that more people are adopting nowadays.
If only it was made a mandatory test for couples who want to get married, it will save us a lot of grief and help stem the cases of people being unwittingly infected by their partners, who in turn are deluded and thinking that their promiscuity will be blessed by the gods, and by some miracle they will not get any sexual diseases despite sleeping with any Jane, Mary, Sally and Tom.
THis is not a fool-proof measure of course. It won't protect those who have pre-marital relations or one-night stands. But at least, it helps those planning to marry, to go into it with wide-open eyes.
Oh, and another thing, it won't be such a bad thing if they make Aids tests more widely available, and also in more pleasant conditions and environments, rather than just a dingy clinic located somewhere within the red-light district. Aids is no longer a red-light district problem. It has become a formidable enought mass social issue.
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