According Morenike Ukpong, the coordinator of the New Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society, a Lagos-based NGO, not
less than 12% of public secondary school students in Nigeria practice
anal sex while 12.1 per cent of university students and 15.2 per cent
adolescents in northern Nigeria engage in the act.
Some things are just damndiculous. How did they arrive at these figures?
Some things are just damndiculous. How did they arrive at these figures?
Morenike
who disclosed this to the Nigerian Tribune said the role of anal sex in
driving the HIV epidemic away from Nigeria could no longer be ignored.
She
further said there were evidences to show that about 10 per cent of
women and 14 per cent of men in the general populace practised anal sex,
adding that the use of condom during this sexual act was low because of
the erroneous belief that anal sex was safer than vagina sex.
“Request
for anal sex by clients of female sex workers is high with men paying
higher to have anal sex for many reasons,” she stated.
According
to Ukpong, anal sex is known to be the highest risk form of sexual
transmission of HIV infection with approximately 14 times higher risk of
HIV transmission when compared to penile-vagina sex.
“The
probability of HIV infection transmission in penetrative anal sex is
about 1.4 per cent per sex act both in heterosexual and homosexual
relationships. For women, the risk is highest as they will always be the
receptor in either vagina or anal sex,” Ukpong added.
She
said there was the need to discuss more openly about the risk of anal
sex adding that the discussion around sex must become broader to
encourage public understanding of the multiple forms of sexual practices
(vagina, oral, anal) and the risk of HIV infection associated with all
the forms of sex..
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