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Nigeria: NACA Discovers 3,500 Male Sex Workers In Abuja by demarc001: 8:34pm On Nov 30, 2015 |
Abuja — Findings in a new survey carried out by experts on HIV/AIDS have identified about 3,500 male sex workers within Abuja metropolis, a situation that has raised concern about the danger of homosexual activities to the fight against HIV/AIDS in the country. The revelation came amid the anti-homosexual legislation signed into law by former President Goodluck Jonathan. Chairman of NACA maiden lecture, Dr. Patrick Dakum made this known on Friday as a prelude to this year's World AIDS Day in Abuja. On the survey, Dakum explained that stakeholders were worried by this figures because over 60 per cent of the men were married, raising the concern of spouse HIV transmission. The lecture which had as its theme, 'Strategies for Ending AIDS by 2030' harped on the need to adopt practical measures in order to bring new infections to zero. NACA DG, Prof. John Idoko stated that with the new focus on AIDS in Nigeria pushing towards complete eradication by 2030, the agency was now targeting hotspot areas in its drive to end the HIV epidemic. "Within the Federal Capital Territory, we found that if we focus our resources in three council areas of Gwagwalada, Bwari and Abuja Municipal, we would have covered a greater population of persons with HIV within the area," NACA DG observed. Idoko explained that the agency was developing interventions to be able to reduce contact between infected and uninfected persons. Delivering his lecture, Director of Global Health at the University of Manitoba, Canada, Professor James Blanchard, said notwithstanding modern technologies, HIV prevention was a very complex thing because there were social factors that need to be addressed like political commitment and advocacy, laws and labour policies, community mobilisation and a host of other things. Blanchard stated that Nigerian was a very large and complex country, extending services to those who needed to receive the treatment required that the country concentrate on the right environment and high risk areas. "We need to match our HIV interventions with the population of HIV distribution. We need to get down to the micro level to know where we put our resources. We have the sex workers, persons who inject drugs and men who have sex with men," he said. He stated that NACA survey had identified eight priority states in Nigeria because HIV was not evenly distributed, adding that there were very large population in parts of FCT, Lagos, Nasarawa and Benue. He said "We found that in Benue, 60 per cent of men who visited bars, restaurants and hotels were seeking sexual partners while 12 per cent of the females were seeking sexual partners and nine per cent of those who patronise these places are female sex workers. "We also saw substantial risk behaviour in rural areas. In Benue, 30 per cent of the unmarried men had visited a worker and 18 per cent had visited sex workers within the last one month. But this was not the same across the state as some places were high risk areas." Also, a high proportion of married women in the NACA study reported having more than one sexual partner in Cross River and Benue within the last six months. "We need to recognise that Nigeria is a high mixed epidemic with a large number of female sex workers and high causal and female sex workers in urban areas," Blanchard said. According to him, Nigeria needed to think of how it could cover its key population particularly the sex workers through intensified outreaches, condom programming, intensifying treatment and testing programme. "We need to think of structural programmes to reduce stigma, to reduce vulnerability and violence for sex workers. We should focus our interventions in urban hotspot rather than thinking of a general flood irrigation approach," Blanchard stressed. Also Speaking, the Catholic Bishop of Abuja Metropolitan See, John Cardinal Onaiyekan said the church would continue to support the fight against HIV/AIDS, adding that, there was need to explore all the avenues of preventing the spread of the virus rather than focusing too much on use of condoms. Onaiyekan contended that with new advancement in treatment, persons living with the virus could live a more favourable life without resorting to spreading the disease. UNAIDS Country Director to Nigeria, Dr. Bilali Camara told the gathering that "the HIV prevalence is unequal among young males and females 15-24 year- olds; for age groups 25-29 to 30-34, females have a higher prevalence. The prevalence for males then peaks in age group 35-39 and remains higher for the age group 40-44. Camara added that "this underlines the high burden of HIV among women and especially young women in Nigeria. This observation puts women, especially young women at the centre of the HIV/AIDS response."http://allafrica.com/stories/201511303100.html Lalalasticlala |
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