Only 30.5 per cent of married men who reportedly engage in “penetrative sex with commercial sex workers use condoms,” a research has shown.
The study showed that out of the 1,396 and 459 married male respondent who reside in urban and rural areas respectively, only 137 had used commercial sex workers in the past six months prior to study and only 63 men had used a condom at the last visit.
The Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Prof. John Idoko, said this during the presentation on PreExposureProphylaxis by the United States Mission.
According to him PrEP is the newest HIV prevention tool which involves the use of Truvada, an antiretroviral to prevent HIV infection.
About 62 per cent of new infections, he said, occured among persons perceived as practicing “low risk sex”, including married sexual partners.
Idoko cited three approaches that would aid the implementation of PreP, including remodelling with data analysis. He added, “We want to do a feasibility study in four states.”
Also speaking, the Director (Prevention, Care and Treatment) at the Health International (FHI 360), Dr. Hadiza Khamofu, said infections in low risk relationships were acquired through high risk sexual encounters
She cited a recent study by Dr. Taiwo Ijawogin of the University of Ibadan on condom use with sex workers and abstinence among men Nigeria.
Speaking on ‘Discordancy trends in Nigeria’s PMTCT programme’, she stated that the ante-natal care prevalence rate of 4.1 per cent exists among the 160 million populations, adding that pregnancy presents a period of higher risk of acquiring or transmitting HIV infection.”
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How do this people in authority get thier data/statistics.its true married men visit commercial sex workers but to tell me only 30% use condom during sex is a big fallacy.sex workers are very careful people when it come to sex matters.John ldoko of NACA could be saying this inorder to collect fund from donor parthers.
ReplyDeleteJames, you're saying the truth they just fabricate figures to enrich their purse.
ReplyDelete@James & Anonymous Co., you must be speaking from experience.
ReplyDeleteThe percentage may be right or wrong but one fact remains, married men are already used to having unprotected sex with their wives and would preffer to do same when they go out. Its also true that many prostitutes will never accept unprotected sex,but when the familiarity becomes intense (long time customer), they can succomb. Just yesterday, a young man told his friends that the prostitute he engaged that day was so much in a hurry that he had to go in unprotected and of course the friends made fun of him saying he has given himself HIV. It may not be easy but we must strive to abstain from extramarital sex and at worst with protection in order not to cause avoidable trouble for ones relations and friends when AIDS sets in.
ReplyDelete@Savage, if you like describe me as an experienced one but the fact remains that, Ash... are more conscious than those girls that operate silently from their parents home therefore, the statics shown above was cooked by the prof and his lieutenants in order to make more money. Prof na prof.
ReplyDeleteProf. Where were dis statistics taken from. I believe sex workers are more careful nd most of them 'll not want 2 risk their life as d case may b. Anonymous
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