A woman is languishing in remand prison for allegedly spreading HIV to her husband.

The woman who cannot be named, as the case is still before the courts, has been charged with wilful or deliberate transmission of HIV.

She is 28 years old.

She has also been charged for theft of her husband, Lungile Ncube’s medical cards.

The husband alleges that she stole his medical cards in an act of cruelty and selfishness on the 5th March this year.

The magistrate’s court heard that the arrested wife, knew that she was HIV positive but went ahead to have unprotected intimacy with her husband and also without alerting or notifying him.

The original incident allegedly happened in January this year.

“Sometime during the same month the two started to engage in unprotected sexual intercourse as husband and wife but the complainant did not know that the accused person was on HIV treatment,
the husband then fell sick in November last year and his wife accompanied him to the clinic,” said the prosecutor Ms Memory Ndlovu.

She continued saying, “the husband discovered upon interviews done by clinic staff that his wife was HIV positive and was coming regularly for treatment at that clinic. He was tested and results showed that he was HIV positive.”

He was remanded in police custody to the 2nd of April 2018.