A high risk of HIV prevalence has been registered among truck drivers in the country. According to the findings by the Ministry of Health, the HIV prevalence rate among these groups is beyond the national average.
In the years before 2006 in Malawi, TNT Express, a Dutch trucking company that used to offer logistics services for the UN World Food Programme, realised that their long-distance truck drivers were getting ill and dying. The cause and reason was unclear, and they went digging when they couldn’t find anyone to drive their trucks.
The Director General of Uganda AIDS Commission Dr. Nelson Musoba has said truck drivers have the highest prevalence of HIV/ AIDS in the country.
In the years before 2006 in Malawi, TNT Express, a Dutch trucking company that used to offer logistics services for the UN World Food Programme, realised that their long-distance truck drivers were getting ill and dying. The cause and reason was unclear, and they went digging when they couldn’t find anyone to drive their trucks.
Eva Mwai popularly known for her involvement in the use of container-clinics along highways to save lives, is one of the eight women from Kenya named in the 2021 Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential People.
