Brothel's promote STIs
Published: 2013 December 11 13:29:58 (4608 Views)
GWANDA Town has recorded a surge in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) following the proliferation of brothels harbouring ladies of the night who continue to flood the gold-rich mining town.
Speaking during a Matabeleland South Provincial Aids Action Committee (PAAC) meeting in Gwanda Town on Friday, the provincial Aids co-ordinator, Isaia Abureni, said some lodges in the town had been turned into brothels where commercial sex workers were operating from, in a move that has contributed to the rise in the spread of STIs.
“STIs are now on the increase in Matabeleland South although this problem is not peculiar to our province alone. There has been a gradual increase of STI cases in the country,” said Abureni.
“Gwanda has changed. Some of the lodges which have in the past been experiencing low business are now recording booming business largely because of an increase in the number of patrons frequenting them in search of sex.”
Abureni said reducing the upsurge of STIs required education on behaviour change targeting individuals operating in those places.
He said an increase in STIs also meant the high risk of acquisition of HIV.
“As a province we need to carry out a research to determine the factors contributing to this increase,” said Abureni.
In Gwanda Town, some young girls of school going age are at risk of being infected with STIs as they are also engaging in commercial sex work.
Some of the commercial sex workers that have flooded the mining town were coming from as far as Harare and Mutare, with small scale miners being their major target.
Sibonginkosi Mlotshwa from the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) said commercial sex workers who called themselves the “New Look” needed to be dealt with.
“They call themselves the New Look and are coming from as far as Harare. We really need to deal with them,” she said.
The meeting resolved that a survey be conducted on lodges operating in the town.
PAAC chairperson Mandla Donga said they will approach the Gwanda municipality concerning the issue of the “problem lodges”.
“We will set up a team that will visit the town clerk over the issue of the lodges, which are being turned into havens of prostitution,” he said.
Residents said they were worried as to why the local authority continued to turn a blind eye on the issue of commercial sex workers operating in some town lodges.
Some of the commercial sex workers have gone for almost a year camped in lodges in Gwanda Town.
- Chronicle
Speaking during a Matabeleland South Provincial Aids Action Committee (PAAC) meeting in Gwanda Town on Friday, the provincial Aids co-ordinator, Isaia Abureni, said some lodges in the town had been turned into brothels where commercial sex workers were operating from, in a move that has contributed to the rise in the spread of STIs.
“STIs are now on the increase in Matabeleland South although this problem is not peculiar to our province alone. There has been a gradual increase of STI cases in the country,” said Abureni.
“Gwanda has changed. Some of the lodges which have in the past been experiencing low business are now recording booming business largely because of an increase in the number of patrons frequenting them in search of sex.”
Abureni said reducing the upsurge of STIs required education on behaviour change targeting individuals operating in those places.
He said an increase in STIs also meant the high risk of acquisition of HIV.
“As a province we need to carry out a research to determine the factors contributing to this increase,” said Abureni.
In Gwanda Town, some young girls of school going age are at risk of being infected with STIs as they are also engaging in commercial sex work.
Some of the commercial sex workers that have flooded the mining town were coming from as far as Harare and Mutare, with small scale miners being their major target.
Sibonginkosi Mlotshwa from the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) said commercial sex workers who called themselves the “New Look” needed to be dealt with.
“They call themselves the New Look and are coming from as far as Harare. We really need to deal with them,” she said.
The meeting resolved that a survey be conducted on lodges operating in the town.
PAAC chairperson Mandla Donga said they will approach the Gwanda municipality concerning the issue of the “problem lodges”.
“We will set up a team that will visit the town clerk over the issue of the lodges, which are being turned into havens of prostitution,” he said.
Residents said they were worried as to why the local authority continued to turn a blind eye on the issue of commercial sex workers operating in some town lodges.
Some of the commercial sex workers have gone for almost a year camped in lodges in Gwanda Town.
- Chronicle
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