The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) on Thursday said it discovered and identified about 3500 male sex workers within the Abuja city centre. According to the findings, over 60 per cent of these men are married,raising the concern of spouse HIV transmission.
This among other issues were closely considered at its maiden lecture on Thursday to mark this year’s World AIDS day in Abuja with the theme- Strategies for Ending AIDS in Nigeria by 2030. The Director General of NACA, Professor John Idoko said the agency is now targeting hotspot areas in its drive to end the HIV epidemic.
“Within the Federal Capital Terrritory, 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,”
Idoko said the agency is developing interventions to be able to reduce contact between infected and uninfected persons.
-Emmanuel Ikechukwu
