Mobile clinics offer HIV testing to truckers

Launched on Wednesday, this new Roadside Wellness Centre is one of many similar facilities countrywide, being a joint initiative between the National Bargaining Council (NBC) for the Road Freight Industry, the Road Freight Association and the department of health. 

The Wellness Centres, consisting of mobile clinics introduced along national trucking routes, are aimed at truck drivers and sex workers and provide HIV and Aids awareness education, primary healthcare, sexually transmitted infections (STI) treatment, TB testing and condom distribution. (Source: IOL, 02 November, 2005).