‘Truck drivers among highest carriers of HIV’

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS has said that truck drivers are among the highest carriers of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the country.

The Director-General of the NACA, Dr. Sani Aliyu, said this in an interview with The PUNCH correspondent on Friday.

Aliyu said that a survey showed that many truck drivers engaged in sexual activity without protection when they were far away from home and then returned to infect their spouses.

The PUNCH, May 2, 2018

 

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