Kampango - pic by Hastings Jimani
People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Mulanje have bemoaned continued violation of their right to privacy when screening them of COVID-19 at the health facilities’ gates.
A teen age girl living with HIV said that when she went to access ART service at Mulanje Mission Hospital and asked for timely COVID-19 screening at the hospital gate, she was told to produce her health passport book to authenticate her status.
“I was disturbed but since I wanted to be screened fast and get in for ART service, I showed the health worker my health passport book against my consciousness,” said the girl.