Wednesday, July 17, 2013
You’ll Not Believe How Many Homosexual & Prostitution Spots Existing In Anambra
The Anambra State Government has said no fewer than
50 homosexual and 618 prostitution spots exist in the
state.
The areas have
been described as HIV and AIDS high-risk targets in the
state.
The Director of the state’s AIDS Control Agency, Dr. John
Ndibe,who disclosed this on Monday in Onitsha, Anambra
State, stated that the government would use its limited
funds to target such spots and ensure that the operators
were educated on the need to protect themselves and their
clients against the deadly scourge.
He said the agency, as a co-ordinating agency on HIV and
AIDS activities, was committed to making sure that it gets
the mother-to-child transmission of HIV and AIDS to a
zero level in the state as directed by President Goodluck
Jonathan.
Ndibe further disclosed that the agency had conducted a
survey of high-risk factors and spots for HIV and AIDS in
the state in order to effectively cut the transmission of the
deadly virus.
“Part of the result of the epidemic report was to identify
spots where they operate; now having identified spots were
they operate and we have an estimate of their numbers.
“We now use the hard funds to target them in those places
so that even if they continue with their trade, they will be
doing it in a safe way, in such a way that they don’t
transmit infection because basically that is what we want to
do”, he noted.
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