Only the Funeral Industry is Benefitting from HIV/AIDS in Rural Nigeria

As of 2014 in Nigeria, the HIV prevalence rate among adults ages 15-49 was 3.17 per cent. Nigeria has the second-largest number of people living with HIV, as 9% of all people living with HIV globally are in Nigeria, 14% of the global deaths from HIVrelated illness are in Nigeria [1] and with a population of about 170 million and despite the recent drop in HIV prevalence to 4.4%, about 3.8-4.0 million people are now estimated to be HIV positive with growth rate of 1500 per day with an infection every minute. Over one million have died of the disease leaving behind over 2 million orphans, now visibly seen in what once were considered unlikely sites – RURAL COMMUNITIES.