Mbale: Mbale District local leaders has expressed their worry over the increased rate of Prostitution in the area. In a heated Security meeting held with local leaders to curb down increased criminality in the town, Authorities said many people have been robbed, strangled to death and others left with nursing wounds. These claim that many youth instead of working have gone to streets to sell their goodies as a way of earning a living leaving many at a risk of being infected with HIV while others with unquestionable chances of being sex addicts.
They further plamed Police for blamed for the laxity which has caused rise in numbers of sex workers in the area. Mr Robert Tukei, the Elgon region Police spokesperson, said they would soon conduct an operation to arrest all sex workers in the town. Many turn to prostitution because of poverty and lack of other opportunities.
A study of Kampala teachers in showed that teachers were turning to prostitution to increase their income. A sex worker can earn around 1. There are many Kenyan prostitutes in the country. Violence erupted in Kampala in between Ugandan and Kenyan prostitutes. The Kenyan prostitutes were charging a low price, and the Ugandans were angry that the Kenyans were taking all their trade.
Local leaders intervened to stop the fighting, and the Kenyans agreed to charge the same price as the Ugandans. Two Kenyans were injured. In an attempt to stop the influx of Kenyan prostitutes, the authorities planned to charge a registration fee. With 6, construction workers building the new Hydroelectric Power Station fuelling demand, there are many prostitutes in the Karuma area. Lyantonde is a truck-stop town and the main stop-over on the main highway from Kampala to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda.
The area has the highest rate of HIV in the country, nearly twice the national average. Uganda is in the top 10 of countries with the highest HIV prevalence rates. Sex workers are a high risk group. In they had a Even in Kigali, where HIV infection is the highest in the country, clients are reluctant to use condoms and will offer many times the usual rate for unprotected sex.
