Imagine that you are from a part of the world where the percentage of the population who are HIV positive is in some places as high as 1 in 4.

How to get your view on Africa Live!

Call 44 207 836 0215 E-mail africa.live@bbc.co.uk Text 44 7736 100 100 (start your text with AL)

You have recently met the partner of your dreams and are now making the ultimate commitment to each other and are getting married.

You are embarking on a long term sexual relationship and you want to start a family - clearly you sexual history matters.

Click here for the latest programme

But would you take an HIV test and can you force your partner to take one too?

This was just one of the issues addressed last night by Johnnie and Michelle - the wedding couple on Africa Live.

The live interactive programme is connecting Africans on the BBC African Service at 1630 and 1930 GMT each day this week.

Callers from across the continent discussed crime, cults in university and witchcraft yesterday.

But it was the couple live on a satellite link-up from their front room in Ouagadougou who took centre stage.

A caller from Kenya raised the issue, putting the question directly to the pair in Ouagadougou.

Suddenly differences in height, he is 5ft 6, she is 6ft 2, which they had been discussing seemed irrelevant.

It is a modern world dilemma for African couples. But husband to be Johnnie was very assured in his response.

"I am serving in the US military and we get tested every six months, I sent the latest test result to Michelle."

Michelle then said she too had taken the test.

They might be free of concern to start a married life but for many other couples in Africa this moral dilemma will persist .

Africa Live will continue to connect people across the continent for the rest of the week.