Thugged Out, It's not my place to pass moral judgments on others; having said that, do I think that philandering husbands/boyfriends etc who infect their unknowing wives/girlfriends ought to be punished. Yes, of course they should be, but, don't you think that having to face a certain, slow and painful death is punishment enough? We aren't doing anyone favours by resorting to vitriol. The need of the hour is education of the populace. The notions of who gets AIDS and what happens to them is so severe in Nepal that people who live with the infection live horrendously miserable lives. I presume you think that a process of social ostracization against these folks would help, but what of their children? Do you ostracise them as well? The current scenario in Nepal is cexactly that. When one person contracts the infection, the entire family is shunned by everyone in the community but all that does is lead to isolation and further ignorance of the masses. It's no longer about morality. People are being infected in all manner of ways. A substantial number of infections a few years ago was because the blood bank in Nepal was not checking blood prior to infections and a couple of folks were infected. The commercial sex workers as I said earlier, are nothing other than victims of their circustances and all too often, victim's of other people's brutality whereby they are sold unknowingly and have to work to "earn" their freedom. This I know will be an ongoing debate..or rather I hope it will be. I know that Nepal has other problems to grappel with i.e Monarchy vs. Democracy but we also need to be cognizant of these massive issues that have always been swept under the carpet because the fact is that ignorance is doing a stellar job of leading to flabergasting number of infections every year.