The risk of contracting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus through anal s*x is seven times higher than through vaginal s*x, the senior manager, New HIV Vaccine and Microbicides Advocacy Society, Mrs. Aisha Adaranijo, has said.
Adaranijo said this during the organisation’s end of project dissemination programme in Lagos.
According to her, the anus being a narrow and dry passage is susceptible to tears when penetrated and when such happens, the risk of contacting the HIV ‘becomes very high.’ Adaranijo, who listed the most-at -risk people as men who have s*x with men, commercial s*x hawkers, injection drug users and those living with HIV, said through the research carried out by NHVMAS, it was discovered that the youth formed the larger percentage of this group.
She said, "The availability of antiretroviral drugs, which bring down the viral load and ensure that the HIV does not develop into full blown AIDS, together with other medical intervention has really helped carriers to live these days.
This was unlike the past when people developed full blown AIDS. "But youths are still involving themselves in risky and weird s*xual exploits which they watch in pornographic movies."
