PREVALENCE OF HIV AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN ATTENDING ANTENATAL IN SOMESELECTED HEALTH FACILITIES IN KEFFI METROPOLIS

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was discovered in 1993 (two years after the disease AIDS was described) when Barre-Sinous; montagnier and colleague at the institute Pasteur, Paris, France isolated the virus from the T-Cells of a patient with generalized lymphadenopathy associated virus (LAN), now HIV. In the same year, Robert Gallo and colleagues, working at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) USA made a similar discovery in their quest to find the cancer-causing virus. An HIV infected person is someone who has the virus that causes AIDS and may or may not know that he/she is infected but can transmit the virus to another person. A total of 200 pregnant women were used for this research work from five selected Health facilities in Keffi metropolis. Blood sample were obtained from the women that came for the antenatal and HIV Rapid Kits test was used for the test. Data were analyzed using SPP version 2.80 Pearson Chi.