Seroprevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus SEROPREVALENCE OF HUMAN IMMUNODIFFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) AMONGST INMATES OF KADUNA PRISON, NIGERIA
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Recent evidence indicate that prison population is at risk of HIV, even though they are one of the most neglected risk group in the area of prevention and management (Joshua 2004). By late 1992, HIV seropositive prisoners had been detected in the Nigeria prisons (Orubuloye et al. 1995). A prevalence of 8.7 %, far higher than the Nation’s average of 6 % was reported for Nigerian prisons (Akpan et al. 2004).
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