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Jun 17, 2016
Nigeria’s epidemic is generalized, with wide variation in prevalence within the country. An analysis of the 2012 National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey (NARHS) prevalence data in the country’s six geopolitical zones shows that the prevalence is highest in the South South Zone (5.5%) while the lowest prevalence is in the South East Zone at 1.8%. There are also differences between urban and rural areas with prevalence figures in urban 3% and 4% in rural area. The pattern of distribution of HIV prevalence by sex showed that irrespective of sex disaggregation, the HIV prevalence pattern is the same across all selected background characteristics.