Know your status!

"Lesotho's 'Know Your Status' campaign, the first of its kind worldwide, will offer confidential and voluntary HIV testing and counselling with the aim of reaching all households by the end of 2007." http://www.alertnet.org

Yes, know your status. Are you HIV-positive or are you not HIV-positive? If you are, then what are you gonna do? The sangoma isn't your best bet, because (s)he will tell you to have sex with a virgin. Be aware that sex with a virgin only spreads the virus; it does not and will not cure you. So what are you gonna do?

If you're smart you'll inform yourself on the virus and the affliction. Ask medical doctors and nurses what they advise. Take any medicine you are given. White people may have hurt black people before, but they did not make condoms to curb the black population. Condoms actually protect you, if you're HIV-negative, and they protect your sexual partner, if you're HIV-positive. Condoms do not reduce your manhood. Wear a condom.

The 'Know Your Status' campaign will not succeed without your willing participation. Get tested, and encourage your friends to get tested, too. We have the third highest rate of AIDS infection in the world. That's a lot. Forget the witch-doctor (listen to your medical doctor), wear a condom (or abstain), and get tested.

Further reading:
http://mzansiafrika.typepad.com/mzansi_afrika/2005/12/lesotho_is_firs.html
http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/news_item.cfm?news=832