Aids Pandemic: Challenge for the Nigerian Psychologists

Abstract

No other medical event in recent history has produced the degree of public fear and private response than the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). For a clearer picture, it is considered as three separate epidemics instead of one. The first is an epidemic with regards to the spread of virus where an increasing number of new infections each day. The second is an epidemic of whose infections have progressed to the terminal stages and thirdly is an epidemic of the social, economic, and political reactions of people towards HIV/AIDS. Each epidemic poses a certain challenge for the Nigerian Psychologist whose expertise and involvement is imperative to contain the disease



IFE PsychologIA Vol 9, No1 2001, pp. 83-88