THE ROLE OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN HIV/AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN UNIVERSITY OF BENIN TEACHING HOSPITAL, UBTH NIGERIA

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. The finding showed that social workers has play their role by advising, making sure that those HIV patient do not go to the public place and creating awareness in the control of HIV/AIDS in University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), by advising both patient and employee at UBTH and creating awareness to every individual. Both employee and non employee at UBTH are nowaware of the way to control HIV, how to prevent and how it can be treated, it was also reviewed that with the role of social workers at UBTH the level of HIV/AIDS patient at UBTH has reduce, respondent also reviewed that if individual should be advised to avoid misusing drug which can lead to engaging in certain behaviour that may increase chances of contracting or transmitting HIV and if sharing of needles for shooting DRUGS, piercings or tattoos is avoided, the level of HIV spreading will reduce.