This case is indeed a very sad one therefore I am appealing to each and everyone of us to 
cautious about the whole case. It is fact that HIV/AIDS is the night mere of the past century 
and millenium. I have benn working with this issue over 9 years and have achieved 
experience both here nasjonal and international through conference, course and benn a 
board member of the European Working Committe from 1994-1999 which is an advising 
organ for the European  Union on Migrants and Ethnic Minirities and HIV/AIDS.

The reason for writing this piece is we have to be have in the back of our memories the 
"Africans HIV/AIDS saga with the The Norwegian Board of Health" were  all Africans were 
labelled as potensial carriers of the Virus or the Disease. HIV/AIDS is a very sensitive issue 
therefore we have to deal with the awakening of enquiryand in a very informative way to 
avoid stignatising. blaming and counter balming.  I am not condoning in any way that it is right 
to infect people whilst you are aware of you Status as a carrier.

My reaction is the title "UNMASKED" and using the word a friend of mine gave me a "TIP". It 
could have read "A friend of mine informed me... Can you please confirm. What are you goin 
to do with full story? I have been leaving in Scandanavia for almost two decades what the 
media is going to write or the authoritie to informed is going to be on stigmatising. If aan 
immigrant do commit a crime and been a citizen the headlines always reads A Norwegian, 
Swedish, Danish or finish citizen originally from Gambia. The description will always tell you 
who that individual is. When ever a forenger maltreat a Citizen they always write he have 
been battered to tghe worst. But whaen a native battered a foreigner it is always 
ACCORDING TO HIM.

There I am appealin once again to help this poor guy with comfort without justifying or 
condoning what he did knowing his status?


Have a nice weekend
saho

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