3, 500 male sex workers, mostly married, discovered in Abuja - NACA

The Director General of the National Agency for the Control
of AIDS (NACA) Professor John Idoko today disclosed that it
recently discovered about 3,500 male sex workers within the
Abuja city centre, most of whom were married men. Idoko
made the disclosure while speaking at the agency's maiden
lecture in Abuja. He said a study carried out by the agency
indicated that over 60 per cent of the male sex workers are
married raising the concern of spouse HIV transmission. He
added that the findings by the agency also indicated that a
high proportion of married women in Cross River and Benue
had other sexual partners within the last six months.