Anambra State Government says it has
identified over 50 homosexual and 618 prostitution spots as HIV and AIDS
high-risk targets in the state.
The Director of the state’s AIDS Control Agency, Dr. John Ndibe, told the News Agency of Nigeria
on Monday in Onitsha, Anambra that the government would use its limited
funds to target such spots and ensure that people operating these
places were educated on the need to protect themselves and their clients
against the deadly scourge.
Ndibe 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.
He said 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.
He said, “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.”
Meanwhile, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra
State has said everything will be done to protect the state from
adverse effects of flooding this year.
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