Lost USB.

Sorry about this random post,


But I managed to forget my USB and I have to some how transfer information from the school computer here. To my computer at home.

Why can't I be more organised.

Anyways. I'm pretty sure I'm not meant to be on my blog atm. But I'm really desperate.
So ingnore the rest of the post as it is just mindless information on HIV + AIDS in Nigeris.

Well.. unless ofcourse your interestedin that stuff. If you are (interested in HIV + AIDS in Nigeria) ... then continue reading

CRAP. I'm late for flute lesson.\
bye anni.

Back form flute lesson, t'was so late that my teacher left :(


In Nigeria, an estimated 3.1 percent of adults between ages 15-49 are living with HIV and AIDS.


Life expectance: In 2007 these figures had fallen to 46 for women and 47 for men.


The first two cases of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria were identified in 1985 and were reported at an international AIDS conference in 1986.

A poster encouraging sexual abstinence in Nigeria
At first the Nigerian government was slow to respond to the increasing rates of HIV transmission


The President’s Committee on AIDS and the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) were created, and in 2001, the government set up a three-year HIV/AIDS Emergency Action Plan (HEAP). In the same year, Obasanjo hosted the Organisation of African Unity’s first African Summit on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Other Related Infectious Diseases.10

Despite these positive intentions for tackling the epidemic, in 2006 it was estimated that just 10 percent of HIV-infected women and men were receiving antiretroviral therapy and only 7 percent of pregnant women were receiving treatment to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV

In Nigeria HIV is primarily transmitted through heterosexual sex. Factors contributing to this include a lack of information about sexual health and HIV, low levels of condom use and high levels of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as chlamydia and gonorrhoea, which make it easier for the virus to be transmitted.

It has been reported that blood transfusions account for up to 10 percent of new HIV infections in Nigeria.12 There is a high demand for blood because of blood loss from surgery and childbirth, road-traffic accidents and anaemia and malaria. Not all Nigerian hospitals have the technology to effectively screen blood and therefore contaminated blood is often used.

An estimated that 220,000 children are living with HIV, most of whom became infected from their mothers.

Factors contributing towards the rising rates of HIV + AIDS in Nigeria.
Lack of sexual health information and education

Sex is traditionally a very private subject in Nigeria and the discussion of sex with teenagers is often seen as inappropriate.

Around 20 percent of women and 25 percent of men between the ages of 15 and 24 correctly identify ways to prevent sexual transmission of HIV and who rejected two misconceptions about HIV transmission

HIV testing

Doctors seeing patients in an HIV clinic in Nigeria
Another contributing factor to the spread of HIV in Nigeria is the distinct lack of voluntary and routine HIV testing.

Cultural practices
Women are particularly affected by the epidemic in Nigeria. In 2007 women accounted for 58 percent of all adults aged 15 and above living with HIV.
They also tend to lack the power and education needed to insist upon the use of a condom during sex. Coupled with the high probability that the husband will be significantly older than the girl and therefore is more likely to have had more sexual partners in the past, young women are more vulnerable to HIV infection within marriage.


Thank you. Avert HIV + AIDS website: http://www.avert.org/aids-nigeria.htm




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