HIV/AIDS awareness among secondary school youths in Port Harcourt, rivers state, Nigeria

Abstract

In this paper investigator has made an attempt to study HIV/AIDS awareness among secondary school students. We all know this fact that today more 37.2 million adults and 2.2 million children in the world are living with HIV. This disease has affected people from every nook and corner of the world without any age or gender parity. Two decades have gone by and humanity is struggling to find ways to face challenges posed by a little known virus called HIV. The pandemic has become a human, social and economic disaster, with far-reaching implications for individuals, communities and countries. No other disease has so dramatically highlighted the current disparities and inequities in health-care access, economic opportunity and the protection of basic human rights. Since 1981, the pandemic has killed 23.1 million people, out of 79.9 million total infections. In other words all peoples are especially critical is achieving HIV/AIDS related awareness, attitude and right sexual behaviour for their safe life. In this context investigator studied the awareness of school students related to HIV/AIDS. The findings of the study revealed that gender wise, locality wise, and type of management of school, students do not differ significantly in their awareness related to HIV/AIDS.