AEGiS-NV: Construction workers luring Bugiri women, says official

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Construction workers luring Bugiri women, says official

New Vision (Kampala) - November 11, 2009
Moses Bikala

Married women in Bugiri district are abandoning their husbands for road construction workers, who lure them into sex by offering them money, an official has said. The district gender officer, Edith Batengaya, said 35 men had approached her over the past three months saying they had lost their wives to workers of Reynold Construction Company.

The construction firm is in the final stages of completing works on the Jinja-Bugiri highway. Batengaya said most of the women who had abandoned their husbands cited poverty.

Batenganya advised the women to avoid having sex with multiple partners to avoid contracting HIV. "These people are here for a short time and they will leave you here after completing their job."

She attributed the increase in HIV cases in the district to the reluctance by sexworkers in Naluwerere and Busowa trading centres to demand that their clients use condoms.

The district engineer, Godfrey Kirya, advised residents to construct houses at least 15 metres away from road reserves to avoid demolition in future.

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