Ghang Oyang, the adviser for HIV/AIDS within the AusAID funded Law and Justice Sector program, informed participants at the National Judicial Staff Services workshop that mobile phones provided easy access for both married men and women to communicate with their lovers to meet at certain locations for sex.
He said this was one of the latest means of communication where both male and female partners swapped mobile numbers without the knowledge of their spouses.
Oyang said these couples were secretly carrying out their affairs but gave the excuse that they were on a late night job or were working late hours.
He said this behavior was very dangerous especially with women in the rural areas and highway drivers along the Okuk Highway between Lae and the other highlands provinces.
Oyang said highway drivers indulged in sexual activities with women from the villages and this posed a major threat to the spread of HIV/AIDS in the highlands and Morobe Province.
He said the drivers contracted the virus from their multiple partners along the highway and finally transmitted the disease to their wives and the women did the same to their male partners in their areas.
Oyang said this practice was dangerous especially in the rural areas where the infection had been growing at an alarming rate since 1997.
Oyang said the mobile man with money and mobile phone posed a real threat in the fight against the spread of HIV around Papua New Guinea.
