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Factors predisposing adolescents to HIV/AIDS in selected secondary schools of Kiambu district, Central province, Kenya

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Karuru, Patricia Wanjiru
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	The current world is faced with the global pandemic of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome AIDS, which has become a serious health problem and a tragedy. In Kenya adolescent mortality and morbidity resulting from HIV IAIDS is alarming. The age group 15 to 19 years old constitutes 35 percent of all AIDS cases and that an estimated 41,000 youth had contracted AIDS by the year 2000 (UNAIDS, 2000). Such statistics underscore the urgent need to address HIVIAIDS among the adolescents in Kenya. The study set out to investigate factors that predispose adolescents in secondary schools to HIVIAIDS. This was a crosssectional descriptive study aimed at investigating the factors that predispose adolescents into high-risk sexual behavior leading to HIVIAIDS infection. The population consisted of 600 secondary school students from the three selected Divisions in Kiambu District, Kenya. Out of the five Divisions in Kiambu _ . .f District, three Divisions were randomly selected for the study. The stratification sampling technique was used to divide the schools into for categories after which from each category of school, two schools were randomly selected for the study. Kiambu District recorded high prevalence HIVIAIDS infection in the year 2001 being the highest in Central Province. This created the need for interventions and especially on adolescents since they are in their transition from childhood into adulthood. Three Divisions which were randomly sampled from five Divisions were; Kiambaa, Githunguri and Lari divisions where a total number of 8 schools were chosen
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Language	English
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