Matero Member of Parliament (MP) Faustina Sinyangwe has expressed worry at the increase in the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in her constituency.
The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Matero is at 31 percent which is significantly higher than other constituencies some with prevalence rates as low as 3 percent.
Ms Sinyangwe told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that it was very unfortunate that the prevalence rate for HIV/AIDS in Matero was increasing.
She said a lot needs to be done to help reduce the trend in her constituency.
The Matero MP cited that the prevalence rate has continued to increase because of the ever growing population in the area.
She also noted that excessive alcohol and the practice of illicit sex have also made a significant contribution to the increased HIV/AIDS prevalence rate.
Ms Sinyangwe said lack of proper sensitization and education on the disease has also contributed to the increase in the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate.
She said there was need for enough resources in order to carry out proper sensitization and education in the area on the pandemic.
ZANIS
number 1 again!!
Mandatory HIV screening and mandatory circumcision should be a pre-requisite for all new settlers (male). mobile circumcision clinic should immediately be deployed for existing dwellers.Â
And how do they collect these statistics ?
Is she negative herself?
Is it aids or that people donnot have enough food to fight some of the small diseases; put priority on eliminating poverty when poverty is gone, you will not even see aids people have no food to eat
kumyesu zoona kumatero naikaba………wapya munzi.chilase lase bamambala kuchefyanyako!!!!!!!!
chilase lase.kumyesu zoona ku materosberg naikaba situ.
twala bapela stimulas package iya AIDS!!!!!!
There is a need to make circumusision mandatory in Zambia.
What are the incidence rates for HIV in Matero and Lusaka as a whole. While circumcision might mitigate some of these infections, behavior change should be the focus of this campaign. The stats at one of the Lusaka clinics are alarming. Incidence rates have risen at the clinic, clearly indicating that the message was not getting through. So, instead of milking funds from the Ministry of Health, the government must play a bigger role in health promotion. The private sector must even play a bigger role, since this government is a failure. Stop selling Zambian companies to the lowest bidder.
Poverty is the major route of Aids.
If poverty is dealt with, % of Aids in Zambia will reduce. But then this will take a very long time as we are lacking proper leadership at the moment. We need leaders that are selfless to take our country to another level. The majority of us are living in poverty and yet we keep having kids whom we cannot take care of hence increasing the rate of illiteracy and prostitution which result in the number of Aids patients being high.
What is the MP talking about. Matero is one area where everything is possible. The area is dotted with all sorts of brothels in the name of guest houses just in front of ZP station. Sexual intercourse is the order of the day. Ranging from 10pins to 50pins depending on choice live or not. We dont need to mention names of oporaters. Zim women are permanently camped there and owners boast that they bring alot of business just coz of their big matako or bums. W hy cant Sinyangwe engage the oporaters or council oves in and close those places. Women sell their bodies shamelessly in broad day light. Dogs are even better than human beings there. Men of God should do more preaching out there. The situation is terrible the rate is more than 31%
start by closing down club Zone..that place is claiming lives
Circumcision doesn’t work against AIDS. There are six African countries where men are more likely to be HIV+ if they’ve been circumcised: Cameroon, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, and Swaziland. Eg in Malawi, the HIV rate is 13.2% among circumcised men, but only 9.5% among intact men. In Rwanda, 3.5% rather than 2.1%. If circumcision really worked against AIDS, this just wouldn’t happen. We now have people calling circumcision a “vaccine” or “invisible condom”, and viewing circumcision as an alternative to condoms.
The one study into male-to-female transmission showed a 50% higher rate in the group where the men had been circumcised btw.
ABC (Abstinence, Being faithful, Condoms) is the way forward. Promoting genital surgery will cost African lives, not save them.
Yes get circumcized so that you can thereafter free sleep around and you won’t be infected. This kind of deception about circumcizion must be checked. It iz very worrying to hear districts running out of condomz or even being praized for uzing 22000 condomz! We must be teaching moral uprightness and self discipline.
Too many bars, too much sex, too much AIDS. That’s Matero.
Too many bars, too much unprotected coital indulgence, too much AIDS. That’s Matero.
Mark Lyndon spot on! Nigeria is also another country that is badly affected by Hiv/Aids and circumcision is a must there. The only reason we dont read much about the prevelance of the disease there is because they tend to keep that information from WHO. Its a time bomb waiting to explode.
“She said there was need for enough resources in order to carry out proper sensitization and education in the area on the pandemic”
Is there anyone out there who in this day and age does not know anything about HIV/AIDS? Talk about education and sensitisation is a sheer waste of money. If education and sensitisation helped we would have had all educated and middle class people free of the virus and not one medical person would have been infected. The issue is greater than education and stronger than morality. One can avoid smoking but how can one avoid a natural appetite? All resources must be directed to a cure and prevention through testing and treatment.
Faustinah , that’s the trend the whole Zed. Poverty and AIDS can not be separated. Zed leadership doesn’t talk about AIDS cause they know that the route cause is Poverty which they have failed to eradicate. maybe now that Musokotwana reckons GDP has improved maybe AIDS prevalence shall also drop . what a dream !
HIV/AIDS is still a problem today despite huge medical advances, i am wondering if there would ever be a cure for this disease .
Its just like in church today, much as the word of God is being preached people are busy having sex including preachers. Its the mindset which needs to change. Everyone thinks he is playing it right and it can only happen to” those”. During the day we all seem perfect people but let the sun set thats when people are really themselves showing their real behaviour. Its sad AIDS is real imwe bantu.