The Nigerian Sex Workers Association has approached the Federal Government to decriminalize prostitution, saying such would check the spread of HIV.

The affiliation included that HIV disease had kept on expanding in light of the fact that the legislature regarded prostitution as a wrongdoing.

It expressed that law authorization specialists, particularly the police, subsequently annoyed sex laborers and now and again request sex without utilizing condoms.

The National Coordinator of the affiliation, Amaka Enemo, said this in Abuja on Wednesday amid a meeting with columnists at the introduction of a report titled, ‘Understanding the High Risk of Urban Sexual Networks in Nigeria.’

Enemo was said to have assumed a dynamic part in get-together data for the report, which was assembled by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, the University of Manitoba, United States, and the World Bank.

She stated, “Sex specialists confront brutality, particularly from their customers and law authorization operators. Sex work is viewed as a wrongdoing and the police attack avenues and houses of ill-repute to capture sex laborers. They gather cash and if the young lady can’t pay cash, she should offer sex to the policemen. On the off chance that the law implementer does not have any desire to utilize condom, the sex specialist needs to concur and this is the reason HIV is on the expansion.

“In this way, in this examination, all the sex laborers we interfaced with said their greatest inconvenience was law masters.”

The 36-year-old said a few examinations had demonstrated that nations where prostitution is not unlawful had bring down instances of sexually transmitted sicknesses, while Nigeria, where it is illicit, had one of the most noteworthy rates of HIV on the planet.

She said sex work ought to be made legitimate, and government ought not saddle sex laborers with the duty of paying expense.

Enemo stated, “When I went by Amsterdam (Holland), I could visit the seedy area of town where sex specialists work since prostitution is legitimate there. I have likewise gone to New Zealand where they have decriminalized sex work.

“When you decriminalize it, there will be less misuse of sex specialists and the viciousness will diminish.”

Emeno said since HIV is a transferable infection and had no cure, sex laborers ought to be given appropriate treatment and not misled.

She said a contaminated sex laborer could straightforwardly or by implication taint upwards of 100 individuals, including that the administration must not dog, but rather accomplice them.