DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2022.v10i05.006

Pages: 709-713

This study investigates the attitude of community towards people living with HIV/AIDS in Abukwaka area council of Suleja local government in Niger state. A total of 60 randomly selected HIV/AIDS patients from the general population participated in the study. The data for the study was collected using 25 structured items questionnaire with sections A, B, C and D, the data was analyzed using frequency and descriptive statistics. The work aimed at examining the level of discriminatory attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS and the factors in association with such attitudes. The study revealed that about 89 % of the respondents exhibited discriminatory attitudes in the entire eleven relevant items variable. Stigma among the community was significantly high (P<0.05) which was mostly due to fear of contracting the disease as a result of poor general knowledge about HIV/AIDS. In conclusion, community health education must be enforced in order to eradicate the challenge of misconception about the disease and necessity for a change of negative to positive attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).