Homosexuals and commercial sex workers top the table of people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, a survey has revealed.
The study known as the Integrated
Biological and Behavioural Surveillance Survey came under the auspices
of the National AIDs and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control
Programme.
According to the National Agency for the
Control of AIDS, about 3.4 million Nigerians were....
living with HIV/AIDS
in 2012.More current figures are still being awaited.
With a national prevalence of 3.4 per
cent, Nigeria is the second country with the highest burden of HIV in
the world after Swaziland.
The organisers of the survey used
majorly police and military personnel, sex workers, drug users,
homosexuals, road transport workers and others at high risk of
contracting the HIV/AIDS to conduct the survey.
The exercise, it was gathered, took place in Lagos, Edo, Anambra, Enugu, Abia, Rivers, Cross Rivers, and Oyo states.
Others used for the survey are Kano, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Taraba, Benue and the Federal Capital Territory.
The National Coordinator, National AIDS/STI Control Programme, Dr. Evelyn Ngige, revealed this at a workshop in Abuja.
According to her, the survey is not only
to monitor the HIV/AIDS scourge but also to measure its outcome and
impact in the country.
Sex workers, she said , recorded 20 per cent of HIV infection while homosexuals recorded 13 per cent.
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