United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) HIV and AIDS Officer, Florence Tembo-Mulenga, has urged people of Serenje to extensively use condoms when having sex.
Mrs Tembo disclosed that about 250 people were being infected with HIV every day due to lack of information on how to use condoms, especially female condoms.
Mrs Tembo was speaking during a monitoring visit in the council chamber in Serenje on Tuesday with District Aids Task Force (DAFT) members based on how to use both male and female condoms.
She said most of the people across the country were still shy on the use of condoms due to lack of information, a situation she described as worrying
She called on all organizations involved in HIV and AIDS awareness campaigns to put Serenje as a priority on their programmes before many lives were lost.
It was discovered in the meeting that in Serenje there were more male than female condoms and most woman do not know how to use female condoms.
Mrs Tembo, however, said everyone has the responsibility of protecting himself or herself with condoms, and lamented that the low rate of condom use could increase the HIV and AIDS infection.
She also urged men in the district to go for male circumcision and use the recognized condoms which were approved by the government and Medical Stores of Zambia.
And speaking at the same meeting, Serenje District Commissioner, Stanly Chibwana said people in Zambia should change their attitudes towards sex and culture and stop having more than one sex partner.
Mr Chibwana noted that having multiple sex partners increases the spread of HIV and AIDS because one would not know who would have infected the other.
The DC also expressed happiness with the performance of the DATF members in the district and urged them to be conscious of the deadly HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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