The country wide surveys have revealed the HIV prevalence rate has reduced from The surveys have revealed that there is a frighteningly low use of protection by sexually active people especially between the ages of 15 and There is a need to continue the promotion and education surrounding the benefits of condom use.
Prostitution is also one of the major contributor of HIV infection in the district, prostitution is on the rise in Mongu district raising concerns of an increase in new infections. A survey revealed that most nightclubs get filled with sex workers, many as young as 20 years old. This is a sad state of affairs. Western Province has a population of slightly over a million people. One of the young females I will call Martha for the sake of convenience, confessed that poverty has compelled her to go and search for money on the streets of Mongu.
Martha, who is in her early 20s, says the money she makes from the night business enables her to fend for her family of eight. She is, however, willing to change her lifestyle if she is accorded an opportunity to do something to earn a living, he said.
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