{"id":40176,"date":"2022-11-11T21:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border"},"modified":"2022-11-11T21:24:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:24:20","slug":"fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border","title":{"rendered":"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Authorities in the border district of Busia have expressed concern that cases of HIV\/Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases may increase following a shortage of condoms on the Kenyan side of the border.<\/p>\n

The crisis has reportedly forced sex workers in several parts of western Kenyan towns of Busia, Kisumu, Bungoma, Kakamega, and Malaba to resort to washing and reusing condoms, putting their lives and those of their clients at risk.<\/p>\n

Mr Cosmas Okale, a health official at Busia-Kenya, said in an interview on Wednesday: \u201cWe are having issues related to the supply of condoms, which has lasted for over a year and we fear it may escalate the rate of HIV infections.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shortage of condoms in Kenya is worrying authorities on the Ugandan side of the border who say since there is a constant movement of women in the sex trade across both borders, there are fears of escalating infections.<\/p>\n

Mr Amosiah Ongatai, the manager of Youth Environment Service, a non-governmental organisation involved in HIV\/Aids prevention and counselling, said the shortage of condoms was a \u201cbig concern\u201d to health service providers at the border.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have close to 2,000 sex workers across the Ugandan and Kenyan borders, and with the flourishing sex trade, we are worried about being hit by a surge in infections,\u201d Mr Ongatai said.<\/p>\n

Mr Ronald Barasa, the HIV\/Aids focal person at Amalgamated Transporters and General Workers Union, which is involved in the prevention, testing, and counselling of sex workers at the border, said each day, they receive more than 20 sex workers from Kenya who request for condoms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have been telling us that in their country, they have run out of condoms,\u201d Mr Barasa said.<\/p>\n

A sex worker in one of the bars and lodges at the border, who declined to be named because of the nature of her trade, described the shortage of condoms in Kenya as \u201creal\u201d.<\/p>\n

She said some of her Ugandan counterparts operating in Kenya were frequenting shops in search of condoms, while others, who work as far as Bungoma and Kakamega, have been traveling long distances to \u201cborrow\u201d condoms from them.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Uganda<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. Authorities in the border district of Busia have expressed concern that cases of HIV\/Aids and other sexually transmitted diseases may increase following a shortage of condoms on the Kenyan side of the border. The crisis has reportedly forced sex workers in several parts of western Kenyan towns of Busia, Kisumu, Bungoma, Kakamega, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-40176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"\nFear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Authorities in the border district of Busia have expressed concern that cases of HIV\/Aids and other sexually transmitted ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Authorities in the border district of Busia have expressed concern that cases of HIV\/Aids and other sexually transmitted ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-11T21:06:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-11T21:24:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"688\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-11T21:06:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-11T21:24:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border\"},\"wordCount\":376,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border\",\"name\":\"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border - Uganda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-11T21:06:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-11T21:24:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Authorities in the border district of Busia have expressed concern that cases of HIV\/Aids and other sexually transmitted ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":688,\"caption\":\"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/\",\"name\":\"Uganda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border - Uganda","description":"Authorities in the border district of Busia have expressed concern that cases of HIV\/Aids and other sexually transmitted ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border","og_description":"Authorities in the border district of Busia have expressed concern that cases of HIV\/Aids and other sexually transmitted ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border","og_site_name":"Uganda","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-11-11T21:06:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-11-11T21:24:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":688,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border","datePublished":"2022-11-11T21:06:31+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-11T21:24:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border"},"wordCount":376,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Uganda","uganda"],"articleSection":["all news","community"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border","name":"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border - Uganda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg","datePublished":"2022-11-11T21:06:31+00:00","dateModified":"2022-11-11T21:24:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Authorities in the border district of Busia have expressed concern that cases of HIV\/Aids and other sexually transmitted ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_26-636ebd6077ad8.jpg","width":1024,"height":688,"caption":"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/fear-of-hiv-surge-as-condom-scarcity-hits-busia-border#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fear of HIV surge as condom scarcity hits Busia border"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/","name":"Uganda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}