The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has said that that no fewer than 3,500 male sex workers have been identified within the Abuja city center with most of them concentrated in Bwari, Gwagwalad and Municipla.
The Director-General of NACA, Professor John Idoko, made this known at a lecture to mark this year’s World AIDS Day in Abuja with the theme – Strategies for Ending AIDS in Nigeria by 2030, said that over 60 per cent of the men were found to be married, thereby raising concern of their spouses’ HIV status.
“Within the Federal Capital Territory, 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,”
The Director said that the agency is developing interventions that would help reduce the contact between infected and uninfected persons. [myad]
