Shock As Half Of The Student Population Of Prominent University Test HIV+

It is almost an accepted and expected fact that students engage in rampant sexual acts in universities world over.

It is a stage where when the sexual escapades are not protected; there is a huge risk of widespread STDs infections given the number of multiple partners involved. In Kenya, there have always been cases of a female student coming up with a list of hundreds of individuals she alleges to have infected with HIV/AIDs.

While these usually cause the expected fears, they are dismissed after a couple of days. However, a university just set new infection records that will have many rethinking their behavior. In a voluntary HIV/AIDS testing exercise in Zimbabwe’s oldest university, the University of Zimbabwe, it emerged that 47% of the university’s student population who participated in the testing exercise could be infected with HIV/AIDS.

The shocking statistics have led the University administration to come up with new rules limiting the interaction of the students of different sexes. Speaking about the changes and the statistics, the university VC, Levy Nyagura said “The grim statistics of sexually transmitted diseases at the institution have forced us to have a limit for inter-residence visits between female and male students.” The university has also banned alcohol use in the institution and the VC also lamented at the high pregnancy cases observed in one of the university’s halls of residences.