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School Counselors’ Roles In Preventing The Spread Of Hiv And Aids In Nigeria
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Objectives of the Study
The specific objectives of the study are to
(a) investigate the level of awareness of HIV/AIDS among secondary school students in Osun State;
(b). assess the precautionary measures taken by secondary school students against the transmission of HIV/AIDS;
(c). appraise the activities of school counsellors in the prevention of HIV/AIDS.
Research Hypotheses
In
order to empirically achieve in a non – spurious manner the objectives
of the study, the following hypotheses were postulated and tested:
1.
Awareness/knowledge of HIV/AIDS will not significantly influence the
practice of precautionary measures against the transmission of the
disease.
2. Gender will have no significant influence on secondary
school students’ practice of the precautionary measures against the
transmission of HIV/AIDS
3. Activities of school counsellors will
have no significant influence on the practice of precautionary measures
against the transmission of HIV/AIDS Review of Empirical Studies
(i) Beliefs and Attitudes about AIDS
This section presents several works that have been done on AIDS. It presents the disease’s aetiology
and some forms of attitudinal changes, which have accompanied AIDS as a result of social norms and
personal beliefs. In particular, works that pertain to beliefs about AIDS in Nigeria shall be reviewed.
There
are so many norms and personal beliefs and attitudes concerning AIDS
that it would be almost impossible to mention them all, but the point of
this study are to investigate the most prominent ones. First is the
attitude of total disbelief. This is the most drastic and it comes in
several forms. In Africa,
there are large groups of people that claim
that AIDS is a “White Man’s Diseaseâ€, equating it with illnesses such
as anorexia or bulimia (Daily Mail & Guardian, 2002). They believe
it is just as foreign, claiming that their original traditions have not
changed. They feel that regarding sexual practices, their traditions
have not changed – which is polygamy and having concubines. They claim
that Africans are not the inventors of taking intravenous drugs for
pleasure, and homosexuality is a taboo. As a result, people with this
belief look upon the AIDS issue with scorn and contempt. Needless to
say, such people do not tend to change their attitude towards their
sexual behaviour Even among scientists of the Western world, there are
unbelievers Eugene (2001) of the Alive and Well magazine claim that
there are no reliable HIV/AIDS tests and that those in use now, the
ELISA and the Western Blot tests can only detect the presence of
antibody proteins that are assumed to belong to HIV. These tests, he
argues, cannot look for, and cannot
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