Sex workers in Chipata are reported to be conniving with friends to test for HIV on their behalf.
This came to light during the District Epidemic Preparedness and Control meeting held at the Council Chamber yesterday.
According to a report presented to the meeting by Corridors of Hope, the sex workers were giving their names to colleagues who they knew about their status being negative, to test for HIV.
Corridors of Hope Site Manager, Martin Bwalya, said the sex workers later presented the results to unsuspecting boyfriends, saying they were HIV negative when in fact not.
‘’ The sex workers tell their colleagues that, ‘’ You use my name to register for Voluntary Counselling and Testing because your status is negative,’’ and when the results are out, they give to their boyfriends indicating that their status is okay when it is not,’’ he said.
And Mr Bwalya said in the second quarter of this year, most clients that his organisation received to test for HIV and Sexually Transmitted Illness (STIs) were youth aged between 16 and 24 years old and were either pupils or students.
Meanwhile, Chipata District Education Board Secretary (DEBS), Kezius Lungu, said there was need for government to re-introduce boys in girls’ schools.
Mr Lungu said lack of boys in some schools was contributing to immorality in some girls’ schools, adding that the boys could act as whistle blowers to protect girls when men went for them.
He said the Ministry of Education was trying to move away from weekly boarding in some schools by constructing more schools to reduce distances covered by pupils to go to school.
Hillside Girls’ Secondary School in Chipata has reported a high number of pregnancies in the last two years.
ZANIS
Sata’s names, ukwa, toothless old hyena, vasco da gama etc. By the way, those sex workers are all bembas from the new province of zambia.
uli chipumbu sana!!
Those sex workers are from sata’s family forest
Ibu, I am told those sex workers are the wife you left behind, your sisters and your mum! lol.
wapya munzi
Chipata ticking time bombs!!
A very sad development.# 1 did you forget to take your meds today ? What has Sata or Bemba`s to do with the above story ? It is characters like you that has made Zambia to be the way it is.Grow some mental maturity.
That is why it is always best for couples to test together before ukucitana.
Martin Bwalya seems to know more than what he was able to say. Surely if he knows such cases, is it not professional negligence for him not to reveal the real status of the prostitutes to the so called ‘boyfriends’ ?
Why is he allowing the ‘boyfriends’ to be deceived in that manner when he is aware of the scheme?
he needs to be arrested, simple!
Aside from HIV,the above picture of Chipata and the ones on wikipedia show the town as a dirty,dusty neglected place.
#1 Ibu,grow up my brother. The world is moving at a very faster rate,but you seem to 3 decades backwards just like your nephew HH. Kapuli kobe.
Urine you can easily fake that but faking blood test is just sloppiness on the part of the chaps at those clinics; honesty can’t you chaps ask these people for proof of I.D before you insert the syringe in their arms!!
Mikailo
Guys, vasco da gama has developed diarrhoea in korea where he is.
1. Couple testing
2. Bushe ba debs ba tuntulu, is he serious about what he is saying??? He should be transferred.
P.S. Is that the tallest structure in Chipata???
Are the so called boyfriends being tested. :o
Hahaha,mji mchafu kweli na kuna malaya na mashoga wengi.Kwanini zambia wanajibandika jina ati “christian nation” ilhali wao ni “hypocrite nation”?????
Prostitutes have boyfriends huh, its just cheating onself doing all these games and especially trying to date these women.
Yep! Some are married and have children and grandchildren.. to them its just a job like any other.. we all “sell” was we can do best. At home they are just as good as any mothers, wives, grannies, neighbours, and church members.. Yes they also go to church. Life is tough! One’s gotta to whatever they can to survive in this world even if they have to sell their bodies..
afterall was you do with your spouse is not much different from them except that they get paid and you give it for free!!
*correction* must read…
One’s gotta DO whatever they can to survive…… even if they have to sell their bodies..
afterall what you DO with your spouse is not much different from them… except that they get paid ” CASH ON HAND” and you do it for free!!
Just abstain and you are safe, your wife is enough meat to chew guys. I have no regret for those who are contracting HIV/AIDS through fornication and adultery. But the innocent partners suffer and this is the sad part of it.Â
Peace and Prosperity to mother Zambia.Â
What do you expect from Chipata coz that’s where you find alot of sex boosting herbals as well as dagga.That town will be like that until the end of the world.
# 1 Think you are on the wrong website try Zambian watchdog am sure they will accommodate your shallowness
I support the idea of mixing boys and girls
LT Wrong word used, it’s not Boyfriends, it should be Male Clients. What kind of journalism is this? A direct translation?? Sex workers have clients not boyfriend, they show the fitness certificate to Clients, so called boyfriends, so that Ba Chaye Live for more cash????
Again can somebody tell me, do you not have to show your ID when you go fro these so-called HIV/AIDS tests? If you say you’re CONDOM ZULU, CLITORIS MBEWE OR EVEN F*CKSON SAKALA, don’t you hae to prove that you indeed the he or she that you present your self to be? Life in CHIPATA…ba f.i.k.a.l.a imwe you are so dull.
Kuichaila fye…ati live ilaumfwika better. Umo akalya amafi. Stanyoks
ch i#1, uli chi toto iwe ayi. Wabe ubukala wawiso. Kolwe iwe! Tell that to your village headman who imprenanted your grandmother who inturn slept with your father’s first cousin who is your mother’s brother. Easterners, the dullest of all tribes in Zambia.
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Chipata Disco kushana amasha na be na Easteners.Chipata i wonder how it was during RB stay in chipata i hop he neva xperienced this hell.