A new report has indicated that the percentage of women living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria increased between 2016 and 2019 while that of men decreased within the same period.
The result from the Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey , which was conducted in 2018, shows that about 1.9 million people under the age of 64 are living with HIV in the country., approximately half of the projected population of HIV persons in the country are women. The report noted that the percentage of women with the infection increased from 53.1 per cent in 2016 to 55.5 in 2017, 55.83 in 2018 and 56.03 per cent in 2019.
However, the percentage of men with the infection decreased from 46.9 per cent in 2016 to 44.5, 44.17 and 43.97 per cent in 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively.The report which is tagged; “2020 statistical report on women and men in Nigeria” was published by the NBS on August 25, 2021.
And married women are 3x as likely to have the virus and fron their husbands too.
Because more women go for the screening than men
I tot this shit should be 50 50