NIGERIA

Many risk factors contribute to the HIV epidemic in Nigeria, including mobility of commercial sex workers (CSWs), polygamy, and multiple sex partners, high-risk practices among itinerant workers, high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), high-risk, clandestine homosexual practices, international trafficking of women, and irregular blood screening. Youth and young adults in Nigeria are particularly vulnerable to HIV. Recent estimates from the 2003 National HIV/Syphilis seroprevalence sentinel survey by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH, 2004) indicate an HIV prevalence rate of 5.4% for individuals aged 25 to 29; 5.6% for those aged 20 to 24, and 4% for those aged 15 to 19.
(source: CDC GAP fact sheet)