Eight students diagnosed with HIV IN FUNDONG



Students of a Government Secondary School in Fundong subdivision whose name we are withholding have been warned against risky sexual behaviours which expose them to HIV infection. The message of caution was addressed to the school community by health officials in Fundong who recently carried out free HIV screening in the institution to ascertain the status of the students. The results of the screening showed that eight students in the college were HIV carriers.
 The infected students as we learned were counselled thereby encouraging them to take it as any other disease, but with instructions to enrol in the Fundong treatment centre so that they can be receiving anti-retroviral drugs.
This new wave of happenings especially within the school milieu comes at a time students have taken sex as part and parcel of them, yet care less about the consequences because they do it without any protection, hence running the risk of contracting sexually transmissible infections or even getting pregnant.
Another Government High School still in Fundong during the 2013/2014 academic year dismissed 18 female students who were pregnant and 3 of this number we learnt were diagnosed of HIV.
It is certain that not only the school mates of these infected students are at risk of infection but also male teachers who sometime lose sight of their role as models and go the extent of sleeping with their female students and this disease further spreads to the community.

The Fundong Health District in its 2014 annual report revealed that 4213 AIDS patients were under treatment in three centres in Boyo.A figure some people judged to be too high.

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