THE ROLE OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL

ABSTRACT

This study examines the role of social workers in HIV/AIDS prevention and control in University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH). Other objectives are to find out the role of the social workers in the control of HIV aids in University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), to assess the capacity of University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) to control HIV/AIDS, to find out what should be done to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS in university of Benin Teaching hospital (UBTH) The instrument adopted for data collection in this study is the structure questionnaires and was administered only to literate people. The sample size of this study is 50 respondents The primary data collected was analyzed using statistical analysis tools. Coding was done in Microsoft Excel 2010 while the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) was used. Tables were used for easy presentation of results, simple percentage was used to analyze the results obtained from the questionnaires distributed while cross-sectional method was used to test the relationship between social worker role and HIV/AID prevention in UBTH.