South Africa’s health ministry has proposed a plan to make HIV test compulsory. The Ministry believes that the system would be a ‘major onslaught’ in the battle against AIDS in South Africa, which has the largest number of HIV sufferers in the world. Politicians proposed that anyone visiting a doctor would be automatically tested for the virus. However, the plan has been criticized by campaigners who argue it would breach patients’ human rights and violates the public’s right to privacy.