Funke Akindele Oloyede to Start TV Programme on HIV/AIDS

Funke Akindele is about to start a television programme on HIV/AIDS. She talked about her friend who lived and died of AIDS. In her words she said, I have a friend who had HIV/AIDS and died of it. The person couldn't open up because of the fear of stigmatisation. If the person had opened up in time, we might have been able to save her life.

We hope the programme would go a long way. I’m sure they are waiting for your help Mrs Oloyede.

ALARMING : Only 30% Of Married Men Use Condoms WIth Prostitutes

Prof. John Idoko

Only 30.5 per cent of married men who reportedly engage in “penetrative sex with commercial sex workers use condoms,” a research has shown.

The study showed that out of the 1,396 and 459 married male respondent who reside in urban and rural areas respectively, only 137 had used condoms with commercial sex workers in the past six months prior to study and only 63 men used it at last visit.

The Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Prof. John Idoko, said this during the presentation on PreExposureProphylaxis by the United States Mission.

About 62 per cent of new infections, he said, occurred among persons perceived as practicing “low risk sex”, including married sexual partners.