Baldwin flew from Washington DC to meet health officials from Busia county and to Tororo, Busia and Malaba districts of Uganda at Sio Port to assess the impact of the trade.
Peer educators said USAid's intervention has reduced the culture of women using sex as currency to obtain fish from their male fishermen. Baldwin was happy with this development of empowering women to shun this exploitative practice.
The women were also happy that the spread of HIV-Aids has drastically reduced among the fish folks through awareness creation and the reduction in anti-retroviral drugs defaulters.
However, Canon Masake said the fish folks face many challenges, especially those who test positive and stop taking anti-retroviral drugs.
Atieno, a mother of five, has sold fish since her husband died 10 years ago, leaving her to support her family. With no other income, she was left with no option but to trade sex with the fishermen for a share of their catch.
Sex-for-fish, known locally as "jaboya", is a common practice in Abimbo village in western Kenya's Siaya county.