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R/£ Poor fishermen have highest HIV rates - UN report
March 05, 2007 Edition 2
Fishing communities in some poor countries have the highest HIV rates, a UN agency warned today.
Aids-related illness and mortality are devastatingly high in some fishing communities caused mainly by fishermen's travels and a custom of trading sex for fish.
This makes them a priority for prevention and treatment programmes, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a report on the state of world fisheries.
Surveys done since 1992 show that HIV prevalence rates among people in fishing communities in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Thailand and Uganda are between four and 14 times higher than the national average prevalence rate for adults aged 15 to 49. - Sapa-AP
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