Nigeria: Expert Attributes Increase in HIV/Aids Cases to Early Marriage
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
6 August 2008
Posted to the web 6 August 2008
Ruqayyah Yusuf Aliyu
Kano
Early marriage has been identified as a major cause of the increasing rate of HIV/AIDS cases among young women in the North. The Director Africa, Mac Arthur Foundation Abuja,
Professor Kole Shettima, made this known in Kano yesterday while delivering a keynote address at a two day International Conference on Nigerian Youths, Political Participation and National Development organized by the Centre for Democratic Research and Training, Mambayya House. "Early marriage is responsible for the increase in the spread of HIV/AIDS among women particularly in the north because these girls that are engaged in early marriage are mostly married out to older sexually active men and therefore are vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS", he said. Speaking earlier, the Vice- Chancellor of Bayero University Kano, Professor Attahiru Jega, said the aim of the conference was to assess the state of the Nigerian youths in the country's democratic development as well as to specifically examine and critically appraise the problems and challenges facing them in the country's democratization process.
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