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 coordinating 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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