Nathaniel Oduro, Founder & Executive Director ProActif Global & NAPLUS Ghana, is concerned that the unregulated act of sex in exchange for favors known as "transactional sex" is encouraging more young people to develop HIV/AIDS.
Mr. Oduro, whose organization is focused on empowering Ghanaian youth to make well-informed decisions about their sexual health and relationships, stated in an exclusive interview on a Kumasi-based radio station monitored by MyNewsGH.com that the practice is not limited to the Ashanti region.
'Students giving sex to lecturers in exchange for excellent grades, students giving sex to fellow students to get money or favor is common, this scenario is not limited to Kumasi, but is rampant throughout Ghana,' he bemoaned.
"Two years ago, the Director General of the AIDS Commission attested to the fact that old men are deliberately infecting the younger generation with AIDS, and that is because of the high level of transnational sex, that is the nature of what is happening."
"Sometimes you can't blame the student; economic conditions fuel some of these things; they need to pay school fees, provision, and other things, so they take on multiple partners to satisfy the need or want, and this can lead to AIDS or STIs," he stated.
He blamed the disintegration of family values in Ghanaian society for some of these social illnesses and called for a coordinated effort to address some of these social evils.
"Today's society is broken; where I grew up, you didn't need your parents to correct you when you did something wrong; a stranger or your next-door neighbor could correct you or put you in orders." But who are you to do it when you can't even correct your next-door neighbor's daughter or son?"
"When a student travels from Volta to Tech, he or she does not have a relative to check on him or her, and nobody does, so they end up doing whatever they want," he lamented.
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