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Apart from perils of the sea, fishermen face HIV, STD challenge

Deep sea fishermen appear to be vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases due to a lack of sexual health literacy, access to healthcare and drug dependency, a study has found.

This was discovered through a joint study by Tenaganita, Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC) and the Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (Ceria) with the support of the World Wildlife Fund ( WWF), where they interviewed 127 fishermen, both local and migrants, from six states in Peninsula Malaysia.

Over 50 percent of the respondents, who work on larger boats, said they have never used condoms during penetrative sex with their primary partner, with 16 fishermen saying they have had intercourse with sex workers...

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