The Director-General of National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, Dr. Sani Aliyu, said that truck drivers are among the highest carriers of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the country.
Aliyu stated this on Friday in an interview with Punch where he revealed that a survey showed that many truck drivers engaged in unsafe sex with multiple partners in the line of duty and then returned home to infect their spouses.
“The survey showed that a third of the transport workers had never used a condom and 70 per cent of them had between two and five partners in the last one year. So there is significant high risk sexual activity.
“As a result of the survey we decided to meet with partners. There was a need to invest more resources in fighting HIV in hotspots related to the transport sector,” the paper quoted the NACA DG as saying.
