Husband knowingly infects wife with HIV

MBABANE – An HIV positive husband has said he refused to use a condom because he had paid lobola for his wife.

The 50-year-old man knowingly infected his wife with the HIV virus after having unprotected sex with her countless times.
The couple will not be identified for ethical reasons.
 The man appeared at the Mbabane National Court where his wife told the court that she had been deliberately infected with HIV/AIDS by her husband.

The couple appeared before Court President Ngeto Cindzi where the husband was facing a charge of assault.
She told the court that the husband, who is an ex-miner and retired from his employment in South Africa on medical grounds, was taking anti-retroviral tablets (ARVs) secretly without telling her that he was sick.

The court became silent as the wife narrated how she took some of the tablets to a doctor in Mbabane to enquire what the tablets that were being taken by her husband were meant for.
She said the doctor told her that the tablets were for HIV positive people.

Confronted

When he was confronted with the truth, the resident of Gobholo in Mbabane assaulted and insulted his wife and still insisted on unprotected sex because he believed it was his right as he had paid a herd of 12 cattle.
The wife told the court that she later fell pregnant and was diagnosed with the virus after which she went for counselling to help her accept her situation.
However, at home she was confronted by a hostile husband who ordered her not to use ARVs. Her pleas that the couple should use protection during sexual encounters fell on deaf ears.
 “He told me to throw away the ARV tablets. My husband said I should throw them in the toilet because he did not want to see them in his house,” the woman told the court.

She said her husband basically stopped her from taking the treatment, but still demanded unprotected sex.
She told the court that she, thereafter, became seriously ill such that she had no choice but to go against her husband’s directive and take the treatment.

However, her husband would, as punishment, not give her money to go to hospital and generally their relationship worsened as he would demand sex and refuse to use a condom claiming that he was ‘clean’.

Not using a condom is my right - hubby

MBABANE – The husband who refused to use a condom told the Mbabane National Court that it was his right to do so as he had paid lobola for his wife.

Court President Ngeto Cindzi had asked the accused why he had repeatedly refused to use protection during sex. The husband said no one had told him about the use of a condom during sex.
“Nobody told me about condoms when paying lobola,” he said.

The national court president then told the husband to go for counselling and offered him free transport when going for an HIV test.
“We are not concerned about knowing your status since it is a matter of confidentiality but we want to get you to understand your wife,” said the court president.

“I can go,” said the man.
 When the wife was given a chance to comment about the developments inside the court, she said: “I need someone who can make him understand my situation.

“My days are done and I can’t leave him now. Last night he told me that he loves me and I do not know whether he was trying to have me change my decision of taking him to court.”

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