Rivers State Has Highest HIV/AIDS Rate In Nigeria
The
Federal Government has released the 2012 National HIV/AIDS and
Reproductive Health Survey-Plus which indicates that Nigeria now has HIV
prevalence rate of 3.4 per cent.
The
annual survey, which was conducted to monitor the HIV/AIDS epidemic
among the country’s population, also monitors other sexual and
reproductive health indicators.
Rivers State is leading other states of the country with a prevalence rate of 15.2 per cent.
The
survey indicated that, “Compared with the 3.6 per cent in 2007, about
3.4 per cent of Nigerians are currently living with HIV/AIDS, with 3.2
per cent in urban and 3.6 per cent in the rural areas; 2.9 per cent
among young people aged 15-19 years.”
Taraba
State ranked second with a prevalence rate of 10.5 per cent, followed
by Kaduna State with 9.2 per cent; Nasarawa state, 8.1 per cent and the
Federal Capital Territory with 7.5 per cent.
Ekiti
State, however, has the lowest prevalence rate of 0.2 per cent; Zamfara
State, 0.4 per cent; Bauchi State, 0.6 per cent; and Ogun State, 0.6
per cent.
The Rivers State government however expressed doubts over the statistics
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