I refer to the report Forced HIV test can be bad , in which the Community Aids Service of Penang pointed out that such forced tests would not solve the matter of curbing Aids and may even be harmful.

But there is something else about this move that troubles me - the gross violation of the right of those people who test HIV positive to get married and form a family. This violation is often countered by the ignorant with the plain argument: 'But we have to fight the pandemic somehow!'

But I ask myself the question who has the right to decide whether a couple should have a child? Who has the right to decide that an unborn child should not even be conceived, even if that child only has a 80 percent chance of being born healthy?

Who has the moral right to decide that the weak and sickly should not soil a healthy nation? Wasn't that the policy the Nazis used to try and build their mighty Aryan race? They started off by sterilising the disabled, the mentally sick, the blind, the deaf. I do not need to remind you what followed.

Sadly, this was the exact analogy that flashed through my mind when I read about the forced HIV tests. It sent cold shivers down my spine.