ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE OF HIV/AIDS PREVENTION STRATEGIES AMONG COMMERCIAL SEX WORKERS IN KANO METROPOLIS, KANO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study assessed Knowledge of HIV/AIDs prevention strategies among commercial sex workers in Kano metropolis, Kano state. This study aimed to assess knowledge of HIV/AIDs prevention strategies among commercial sex workers in Kano Metropolis. A survey research design was adopted for this study. The sample size of the study was 400 and respondents were sampled using multi-stage sampling techniques of purposive, proportionate sampling and simple random sampling. Data was collected with the use of a validated questionnaire. Inferential statistics of onesampled t-test was used to analyse the data. The findings of this study reveal that the respondents possessed knowledge of HIV/AIDs prevention strategies and also concluded that, the knowledge of HIV/AIDs prevention strategies was significant. Based on the findings the researcher recommended that the prospective health education agencies in the state should prepre health promotion programme to improve the knowledge of
HIV/AIDs prevention strategies among commercial sex workers in the state