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‘Transport Sector Workers More Prone to Contracting HIV’
ECONOMIC gains in the country will be reversed if the spread of HIV/AIDS among drivers and construction workers continues at an unabated pace, Eastern Province permanent secretary Chanda Kasolo has said.
Mr Kasolo said the transport sector is one of the largest sources of employment but unfortunately workers are more prone to contracting HIV.
He made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf by Chipata acting district agriculture coordinator Alfonso Kahalawe during the HIV/AIDS wellness sports day organised by the Ministry of Transport, Works, Supply and Communications at David Kaunda Stadium on Friday in Chipata.
In Zambia, HIV/AIDS prevalence is concentrated in urban areas, along the line of rail and major truck routes. Mr Kasolo said the pandemic has taken its toll on the long distance truck drivers and construction workers.
Mr Kasolo said the spread of HIV in the sectors is heightened by the nature of work whereby people stay away from their families for a long time.
He said border and transit towns such as Chirundu, Livingstone, Kafue, Kapiri Mposhi, Nakonde, Kasumbalesa, Chipata and Mwami as well as Chanida have high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates because of activities of commercial sex work.
He said the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in these towns is equally high compared to other locations.
Mr Kasolo said the loss of human life in sectors most vulnerable to HIV has resulted in decreased productivity and high costs of training human resource.
He said the most affected age group ranges from 20 to 55, adding that these need sensitisation to protect them from risky behaviour and premature deaths.
Mr Kasolo said apart from the decimated workforce, millions of children in sub-Saharan Africa are losing their parents due to HIV and AIDS.
He said Government is committed to stopping the spread of HIV and AIDS scourge. To this effect, Government is promoting the maintenance of a healthy workforce and will provide resources to HIV/AIDS programmes in workplaces.
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HIV NEGATIVE
August 4, 2015 at 9:40 am
Are they too stupid to use condoms?
I God
August 4, 2015 at 11:46 pm
Religious people are most likely to catch Aids-
Watch Prostitutes of God, a Documentary on Religious Indian Sex Workers
New Educated Zambia©❤√
August 4, 2015 at 9:47 am
With the poor economic situation under pf women are desperately selling their bodies in order to afford basic needs. We say vote upnd
Since 19pendefikondo
August 4, 2015 at 9:52 am
most Zambian women have sold their bodies to feed themselves since KK’s UNIP goverment, that has not changed… and it will not change with UPND
Trixy
August 4, 2015 at 2:28 pm
I agree, prostitution is infact the oldest profession, but that does not mean it can not be minimized. Encouraging women to use their hands (eg tansitha under Nkandu Luo) and creating employment opportunities for women is another way of reducing prostitution.
Garden Compound
August 4, 2015 at 9:47 am
I know a big group of prostitutes who are HIV +. They go out night after night since more than 10yrs infecting 1000’s of horny men from all works of life.
Judge Joe Bidden
August 4, 2015 at 10:54 am
I am pretty sure your IQ is below 92, we can bet.
Reason
August 4, 2015 at 12:58 pm
IS YOUR MOTHER ONE OF THE PROSTITUTES YOU BASTARD?
Bwanga
August 4, 2015 at 9:54 am
Why does AIDS kill so many in Africa and yet in America it’s primarily a homosexual disease minus heterosexual drug addicts, hemophiliacs and individual exceptions but then maybe they’re dieing of things that they would have ordinarily died of anyway like drinking sewer water amongst other legitimate possibilities?
Jetsetter
August 4, 2015 at 9:59 am
If you know you have HIV and continue to have unprotected sex with people, then you are a murderer.
J. CHiiiKALI!
August 4, 2015 at 10:19 am
Transport Sector Playerz are the most Deadly because they move from Place to Place seing Different types of Girls frm all Walks of Life – therefore Tmptation so high-ubuwule ba Driver Ngama international they can even Marry in as many countries as they want, Kabili nowadays luv is expresed by giving out money and taking care of the Girls, twapapata in order to curb Prostitution women employment shud kam first-girls need enulf for them t live hence engaging in sex selling in order to manage their needs” women know wat i mean!
Africa's male protitutes
August 4, 2015 at 10:48 am
KGB
August 4, 2015 at 11:31 am
Interesting
ghetto blaster
August 4, 2015 at 1:02 pm
SOON Zambian gay men like “Judge Joe Bidden” hiding in closets will soon start selling their dirty asshôles to d o n k e y s.
Mundetele
August 4, 2015 at 4:09 pm
Very interesting and scary situation. How can these white women be demanding for tradition sex in this age and era? The whites are pathetic, even this HIV was transfered from the west to Africa through such callous behaviour.
side plate
August 4, 2015 at 11:56 pm
What is tradition sex?
As old as the hills, but forever changing, prostitution takes more forms than ever before.
engineer
August 4, 2015 at 6:35 pm
African women are tight. That’s y they transmit more hiv.
Alangazi
August 4, 2015 at 8:23 pm
They are not tight, they stuff their p u s s i e s with all kinds of rubbish believeing that would make them “sweet in bed” instead they get bruised faster from the brown paper/tissue/ newspapers/tampoons stuck in their VJ’s and get Aids!!!
Bizzness
August 5, 2015 at 12:03 am
On the banks of the river Padma, in Bangladesh, Maya stares across the water toward her former home, the city of Dhaka. This mighty river symbolizes Maya’s separation from her family and her past life. It reminds her that she can never return for she is a prostitute. Maya is trapped in a sprawling brothel town called Daulatdia – a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. Trucks, laden with goods for Dhaka, line up for days waiting to cross the river. This giant traffic jam spawned Daulatdia, a roadside sex slum of over 2000 shacks, each housing a prostitute. The women there service thousands of men a day, for two to four dollars at a time.
In a country where nearly sixty million people live on a less than a dollar a day, many women see prostitution as an economic necessity. In fact the law allows unemployed women over eighteen to apply for permission to work as a prostitute. Although legal, Bangladeshi society still treats these women as outcasts. Prostitution is closely related to the notion of two concepts called “purity” and “pollution” which originally come from Hindu culture. Hindus form the second largest religious group in Bangladesh. Whatever her religion, when a woman turns to prostitution she becomes forever tainted.