Rivers State Tops List Of States With HIV Prevalence As Ekiti Becomes The Safest (See List)

Chances of getting infected with HIV/
AIDS in Rivers state, Nigeria’s oil-rich
city is pretty high as it ranks number
one in the country.
There’s loads of money in Rivers, so is
the vulnerability of its citizens and
residents to HIV/AIDS.
According to the HIV/AIDS prevalence
ranking by states published by National
Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA)
after the 2013 National Aids Reproductive
Health Survey, Rivers sits pretty at the
top 4.7 per cent more than number two,
Taraba state.
The ranking also came as a result of test
carried out on persons living with HIV/
AIDS.
It showed that Rivers with 15.2 per cent
topped the new prevalence chat, as
Taraba with 10.5 per cent is second,
while Kaduna has 9.2 per cent to be on
the third.
Nasarawa, FCT, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto and
Oyo are on the fourth, fifth, sixth,
seventh, eighth and ninth spots
respectively on the prevalence rate chart
with 8.1, 7.5, 6.5, 6.4, 5.6 and 5.6 per
cent respectively.
On number 10 is Yobe with 5.3%.
Here’s how other states rank:-
Cross River – 4.4%
Ondo – 4.3%
Gombe – 3.4%
Abia – 3.3%
Bayelsa – 2.7%
Osun – 2.6%
Imo – 2.5%
Borno – 2.4%
Plateau – 2.3%
Lagos – 2.2%
Jigawa – 2.1%
Adamawa – 1.9%
Kwara – 1.4%
Kogi – 1.4%
Kano – 1.3%
Enugu – 1.3%
Niger – 1.2%
Anambra – 1.2%
Ebonyi – 0.9%
Kebbi – 0.8%
Edo – 0.8%
Delta – 0.7%
Ogun – 0.6%
Bauchi – 0.6%
Zamfara – 0.4%
Ekiti – 0.2%