Sinazongwe men are still shunning condoms

By Tovin Ngombe

A concerned citizen in Senior Chief Mweemba area has disclosed that people are shunning from the use of condoms and having unprotected sex.

Siangani Chipo said when Sinazongwe Youth Club drama group visited Sulwegondwe, Sinakoba, Simuzila fishing camp on the shores of Lake Kariba  that  people’s refusing to use condoms has contributed to the  spread of HIV/AIDS in the areas.

“We do not use condoms here, come and help us to make people come out in the open to use them and to feel free to go for Voluntary Counselling and testing (VCT), Chipo said. 

Sinazongwe District HIV/AIDS Coordinator Lester Nambale urged people to know their HIV/AIDS status and to avoid stigmatising people that were infected because they have a future to continue living positively. 

 Mr. Nambale advised people to avoid fearing to go for VCT because they were first counselled before disclosing their HIV/AIDS status to them. 

The District HIV/AIDS coordinator urged parents to report the cases of defilement to police which said were rampant in the district. “If any one is found having sex with a girl below 16 years that person should be reported because they were destroying the lives of the young girls,” Mr. Nambale said. 

Mr. Nambale disclosed that School authorities at Sinakoba primary School which goes up to grade seven records about four cases of defilement and pregnancies every year.

 While Mr Nambale was addressing the gathering on defilement at Sinakoba primary School some men in the background were murmuring for depriving them of their illicit sex with young girls.

At Simuzila fishing camp women openly told the Sinazongwe Youth Drama group that there was overwhelming cases of defilement in the area and most men were in the forefront of sleeping with young girls.

 Most young girls and women in Simuzila village that had gathered to watch the exciting drama on stigma were pregnant or carrying a child on their backs