Night HIV testing boon among sex workers

THE National Aids Council (NAC) says its HIV and Aids night testing and counselling sessions have proved to be a boon among sex workers and their clients.

NAC Mashonaland East provincial manager Wilfred Dube told journalists during a tour of the province that the moonlight programme had seen more people being tested compared to those attended to during day time, adding they were now targeting rural areas.

“What moonlight has done is that it has offered people who are busy and shy to access HIV testing and counselling services to do so at night,” he said.

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