under most circumstances i am against manditory hiv testing however the situation in africa warrants special consideration. the majority of transmissions are male to female and then female to child in childbirth. while any strategy must continue to include education and attempts to encourage men to be responcible in their actions (a culturalbarrier that has so far appeared insumoutable), empowerment of womyn or the difficaulty therein being the flip side of that coin; this stratigy bears some concideration.