Seems like nobody cares about this release. Who cares if people have sex on dead bodies? Sex rounds are avaliable to any adult with a name to keep. Who cares? PLease, take this matter away from your site as it has overstayed it's welcome. Tell me about important things about Africa. Things like the passing away of Mugabe might make news.

This research shows no importance and has contributed not at all.As I am concern, public sex is all round the world.People do it and there no complaint or because this is Africa? Try and do research on how Africa will obtain a great development,reduce the low educational rate and good business environment.please conduct another research and leave african along.

Bobby D. Bunyan

It matters because of the spread of HIV/AIDS, not because people are having sex. Do you want there to still be people in Africa in a hundred years? If everyone gets HIV/AIDS and dies, who does that help? You don't think this is important?

Thank God somebody makes since! How is this article important you ask? It's an important and relevant article NOT because it has to do with sex/sex workers/people living their life the way they want to. It's because these practices in a continent where 22 million adults and children are infected with HIV/AIDS (of a global total of 33 million) are grossly PROBLEMATIC. As a result, this impacts Africans and especially those living in Sub-Saharan Africa more than any other population in the world! The number of infections, which grows exponentially every year, will directly impact and possibly stunt the growth of economies and countries all over the continent of Africa. There are 11.6 million AIDS orphans living in Africa...do you think they'll live to get a good education if there's not enough resources/treatment drugs/and medical care for them to live to join the work force (informal economy or otherwise). It all has a dominoe effect, look at the big picture!

*Source of Statistics: Avert.org

Thank God somebody makes since! How is this article important you ask? It's an important and relevant article NOT because it has to do with sex/sex workers/people living their life the way they want to. It's because these practices in a continent where 22 million adults and children are infected with HIV/AIDS (of a global total of 33 million) are grossly PROBLEMATIC. As a result, this impacts Africans and especially those living in Sub-Saharan Africa more than any other population in the world! The number of infections, which grows exponentially every year, will directly impact and possibly stunt the growth of economies and countries all over the continent of Africa. There are 11.6 million AIDS orphans living in Africa...do you think they'll live to get a good education if there's not enough resources/treatment drugs/and medical care for them to live to join the work force (informal economy or otherwise). It all has a dominoe effect, look at the big picture!

I had ignored this article thinking it was only about sex and African poverty. Yes it was very enlightening moreso when the common thinking was that only truckers frequent these ladies of the night. If moe than 60% of the "clients" are not truckers whom we percieve to be sex starved because of the long periods they stay way from their families then we have a problem. This has nothing to do with being African but of the gravity of the risk to some innocent woman back home. Aids campaign through article should be encopuraged so that we all know whats instore for us. Please let those with information share so that we can change. Why should we be kept in dark. this is the same when people write about human abuse you seek them not mention Africa while thousands are dying. Let it be said to shame the doers.

WOW!!!! I was really starting to become concerned after reading the first two responses to this article. Those two seemed to be VERY unenlightened. The following responses seemed to be more in line with conventional thinking on the incredible HIV/AIDS problem in Africa. My God! If all Africans had the cavalier "it's somebody else's problem" expressed by the first two respondents, how can the rest of Africans and the world be expected to take the problem seriously? Thank goodness for the growing interest and education about the problem. Although "not necessarily" the views of the UN, I agree that all possible customers of those roadside workers need to be educated.

Well I find it quite concerning that no one seems to have a real problem with thousands of truckers having unprotected sex on a regular basis. I mean this IS serious- this is what spreads AIDS. I am priviledged to come from a community in England where AIDS is quite rare but I still don't know many people who would be prepared to have sex unless protection was involved....