Awww... 3,500 Male Sex Workers Identified In Abuja

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) yesterday revealed that about 3,500 male sex workers have been identified in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)...


Also worrisome is the fact that over 60 per cent of the men were married, the agency added.

NACA’s Director-General, Prof. John Idoko, spoke at the agency’s maiden lecture marking this year’s World AIDS Day with the theme: Strategies for Ending AIDS in Nigeria by 2030.

Idoko said the agency was working on some areas identified as hotspots for male sex workers to end the practice adding that their action could expose their spouses to the transmission of Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus (HIV).

He said: “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.”