in appreciating this analysis i_letter must indicate that most of the above mentioned youth men and women are expected to live only for fifty two years if we reach this age we will consider ourselves lucky mainly because of the scourge of hiv and aids the africa centre for health and population studies states that hiv is so prevalent that twenty seven percent of females between fifteen and fifty years and fourteen percent of males between fifteen and fifty four years have had to live with and die from this pandemic in our country