Mike Dibor, a medical practitioner warns that all Nigerians should endeavor to be aware of his or her HIV/AIDS status to help reduce the spread of the disease.

Dibor, a worker at Hope Worldwide Nigeria, a non-governmental organization, speaking at the Health, Safety and Environmental Seminar organized by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) for the workers of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), said, there is need for the migrant workers to practice abstinence and should protect themselves against Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), where they find it difficult to abstain.

Lecturing the workers on the health tips, he revealed to the workers handling the construction of the Mile 12 to Ikorodu Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system that the most common ways of contracting HIV was through exchange of fluid both through unprotected sex or blood transfusion and also through the use of unsterilized sharp objects.

Dibor also emphasize on the need for periodic screening for HIV for the workers to know their HIV status with a view to accessing treatment which is offered free at all government hospitals.

Olukoya Taiwo, the Deputy Director, Safeguard, LAMATA, said the seminar was organized to enlighten the workers on how to care for themselves and things they need to do to keep healthy, adding that LAMATA would continue to promote health in Nigeria by caring for the wellbeing of its contractors and their workers.