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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