title: Frequency of human immunodeficiency virus infection among students of tertiary and secondary institutions in an endemic state.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Students are pivotal to manpower development and technological advancement of any nation. Nigerian nation was recently ranked third human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) most endemic nation in the world
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The study was designed to determine the frequency of HIV infection among Nigerian tertiary and secondary institution students.
  
  
  METHODS
  A HIV screening test was conducted on 1,978 apparently healthy students composed of 981 males and 997 females aged 11-35 years, randomly selected from some Nigerian tertiary and secondary institutions
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall, the sero-prevalence rate of 13.7% was recorded consisting 9.9% in the tertiary and 3.8% in secondary institutions. The distribution of the infection showed no significant difference by age (χ(2)=1.07, P>0.05) and by gender (χ(2)=0.85, P>0.05). Also, the prevalence had no significant association with the settlement of students (χ(2)=0.96, P>0.05) and the status of educational institutions (χ(2)=1.42, P>0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings indicate a high HIV prevalence rate among students in this part of the globe. General behavioral changes about sex among the students are suggested.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Kwara State University, Malete-Ilorin, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Abdulazeez
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abubakar