Prostitution: 3500 Male Sex Workers Discovered in Abuja

National Agency for the Control of AIDS, yesterday said that an alarming
3500 male prostitutes working in the Federal Capital territory have
been uncovered,
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, on Thursday,
November 26, disclosed that it recently discovered and identified about
3500 male sex workers within the Abuja city centre.
The agency said these figures are alarming because over 60 per cent
of these men are married, raising the concern of spouse HIV
transmission.
The Director General of the agency, Professor John Idoko, at its
maiden lecture yesterday to mark this year’s World AIDS day in Abuja
with the theme- Strategies for Ending AIDS in Nigeria by 2030, said the
agency is now targeting hotspot areas in its drive to end the HIV
epidemic.
Idoko said:“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.”
He said the agency is developing interventions to be able to reduce contact between infected and uninfected persons.