Do they do medical checks in South Africa

[junai]

Do they do medical checks in South Africa for spouse's visa? If they do what do they check for? Is it just TB or do they also check for HIV?

[Obie]

See this information on the countries whose citizens they do TB health checks for.

South Africa is not one of them at present.

TB is a Airborne contagious disease, whiles HIV is not.

[Vanadil]

Would they have to declare that they have HIV when they were entering the country?

[Obie]

I see no reason, why they should have to disclose any information to anyone other than a sexual partner or someone they are about to enter into sexual intercourse with, who they are oblige to tell by law.

A country can ask for those information from a public health (financial implication aspect), but not for anything else, and it should not form a basis for refusal.

[junai]

Thanks for your reply Obie. I thought that was the case. Does anyone know whether they still do a TB check on entry for those countries where they don't conduct a medical in advance?

When my fiance first came here on a WHV they were going to do a chest X-ray when she arrived at Heathrow but it meant she would have missed her connection to Manchester and so the nurse just took her address and about 3 months later the hospital wrote and said she had to attend for the x-ray (which she did - all clear).