HIV/AIDS Awareness among Students of Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Abstract

HIV/AIDS has become one of the most devastating disease humanity has 
ever known. The Study investigated HIV/AIDs awareness among students 
of Kwara State College of Education Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. The 
descriptive research design of survey type was adopted for the study. Two 
hundred (200) respondents were selected for the study with the use of 
purposive and simple random sampling techniques. A validated 
questionnaire developed by the researcher was used for data collection. 
Test-retest method was used to establish the reliability of the instrument 
and the result of 0.75r obtained. Inferential statistics of chi-square was 
used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level.The results revealed that 
unsafe sexual intercourse and blood transmission had a significant 
influence on the causes of HIV/AIDS disease (151.340 > 16.92, 221.40 
> 16.92) among College of Education Students in Kwara State. The 
researcher concluded that unsafe sexual intercourse and blood 
transmission causes HIV/AIDS among Kwara State College of Education 
students. The researcher recommended that the school authority should 
organize enlightenment campaign programme for the students to educate 
them on the danger inherent in premarital or unsafe casual sex so as to 
protect themselves against sexually transmitted infection (STI) including 
HIV which has no cure yet.