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KAMPALA. Government has been tipped to ensure inclusiveness of everyone even sex workers if it’s to fully achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
According to the executive director of Alliance of Women Advocating for Change (AWAC), Ms Macklean Mary Kyomya, eradication of poverty in all its forms everywhere, is one of the SDGs but some sex workers because of the poverty they find themselves in, easily compromise into having unprotected sex because it pays more.
To that effect, Ms Kyomya urges government to build resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations to reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events that would lead to more HIV infections.
“SDGs are linked to HIV/AIDS because if a client is going to give a sex worker a lot of money say Shs100,000 in exchange for unprotected sex, some of them would compromise their health and give in since she has basic needs to meet,” Ms Kyomya said on Thursday during a worker shop in Kampala.
Include sex workers to achieve SDGs - Government told
The SDGs are lofty.
According to the executive director of Alliance of Women Advocating for Change (AWAC), Ms Macklean Mary Kyomya, eradication of poverty in all its forms everywhere, is one of the SDGs but some sex workers because of the poverty they find themselves in, easily compromise into having unprotected sex because it pays more.
To that effect, Ms Kyomya urges government to build resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations to reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events that would lead to more HIV infections.
“SDGs are linked to HIV/AIDS because if a client is going to give a sex worker a lot of money say Shs100,000 in exchange for unprotected sex, some of them would compromise their health and give in since she has basic needs to meet,” Ms Kyomya said on Thursday during a worker shop in Kampala.
Include sex workers to achieve SDGs - Government told
The SDGs are lofty.
