By ELIZABETH MIAE
WOMEN aged between 25 and 26 years, with low or no education and are divorced or separated from their husbands, sell themselves to earn a living, the Medical Symposium was told on Tuesday.
A study on the risky sexual behaviour among these women revealed that they sell sex to multiple partners in places where there is a mobile population and the Highlands Highway was one of the places identified.
The symposium was also told that even with availability of condoms, sexual partners who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol may not use it properly or even refuse to use it which poses a very high risk of infection of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV/AIDS.
Risky sexual behaviour still remains a problem amongst both men and women which is a contributing factor to the increasing number of HIV infections in the country.
It was raised during the symposium that HIV infections were high in the urban areas despite widespread access to services and facilities offered at clinics and drop-in centres simply because of stigmatisation and discrimination.
Clinics and drop-in centres were in obvious locations that once a person pays a visit he or she is labelled as a person living with HIV/AIDS.
But it was a different situation in the rural areas where anyone can access these places without having to be stigmatised.

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