I was reading this news brief and saw something towards the bottom - 58% of Nigerian Women over 15 have HIV. How's that even possible?! And where the hell did they get that kind of information.

ABUJA, Nigeria, May 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The rescue of one of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist group Boko Haram from a secondary school in Chibok in northeastern Nigeria two years has thrown global attention onto Amina Ali.

But what is known about the girl who was found two days ago near Damboa in Nigeria's northeast with a four-month-old daughter and a suspected Boko Haram fighter claiming to be her husband?
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President Muhammadu Buhari vowed at a news conference on Thursday that Ali would continue her education and condemned the brutality of forced marriage.

Here are some facts about Ali, the first of the missing girls to be found, and about the health, education and rights of girls in Nigeria:

* Amina Ali was one of 13 children in her family of whom only three survived (Source: The Murtala Muhammed Foundation)

* Women on average give birth to six children (source: World Bank)

* 117 children from every 1,000 live births die under the age of five (source: UNICEF)

* Ali is one of 219 schoolgirls missing since April 2014 when they were kidnapped from a secondary school at Chibok by Boko Haram militants

* The female secondary school net attendance rate is only 29 percent in Borno state in northeast Nigeria compared to a national average of 53 percent (source: www.epdc.org)

* She was found with a four-month-old daughter

* About 43 percent of women aged 20 to 24 years are first married or in union by age 18 (source: UNICEF)

* Nigeria has one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates with women dying in 814 of every 100,000 live birth (source: World Bank)

* Around 40,000 pregnant women died in Nigeria in 2013, according to the World Health Organisation

* A survey of 15-24 year-old women found the majority think it is reasonable for husbands to beat their wives if they burn food, refuse sex or go out without his permission (www.gov.uk)

* 58 percent of Nigerian women aged over 15 have HIV

* Life expectancy for a woman at birth in Nigeria is 53 (source: World Bank)

(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Ros Russell.; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights and climate change. Visit news.trust.org)

SMH...

There is no need to dispute that Stats because Buhari and APC will concur and put up a formidable defense for Reuters.

It baffles me how hatred for PDP administration will make APC to demean and demonize a country they call their own before the international communities.

If a child would die, it shouldn't be from the mother

blood of God

he has diagnosis them? mtcheew

A lot of sampling error must have been loaded into the stats. Na lie jare!

These pipu and their nonsens statistics. How many they don test?. Lies jus full errwia.

Dear Black people wake the f.. up!

White man is waging a stealth war to destroy us physically mentally and economically.

Hundreds of years since engaging the white man the have continue to get rich off our suffering which they are invariably responsible for causing.

Open your eyes, why the hell are we continuing to fraternise with a people that committed genocide against us and till this very day have refused to apologise.

Wake up before its too late.

When you think you ve heard the worst,another comes up!...our president goes around calling Nigerians thieves,corrupt and all sorts of demeaning names and then the international community keys into it and say derogatory things about us.
Buhari is truly a round peg in a square hole.

Immunity1:
he has diagnosis them? mtcheew

Without a cure, these stats are plain useless..

Cray.

This is an epidemic.

**crosses Nigerian women out of the shagging list**

LadyExcellency:
There is no need to dispute that Stats because Buhari and APC will concur and put up a formidable defense for Reuters.

It baffles me how hatred for PDP administration will make APC to demean and demonize a country they call their own before the international communities.

If a child would die, it shouldn't be from the mother

Hia... wetin carry Buhari enter this matter now? SMH

To the post; notice how there was no source for that statistic. Shameful write up.

stevecantrell:

Without a cure, these stats are plain useless..

dont mind them

There's no source. It's idiotic to report that. If 58% of women over 15 years old in Nigeria have HIV, that would be an epidemic of significant proportions. It would be front page news everywhere.

According to UNAIDS, the number is 1.7m. That certainly doesn't equate to 58%.

http://www.unaids.org/en/regionscountries/countries/nigeria

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