Akinlotan Raymond Adeniyi2025-05-142025-05-142022-06Akinlotan, R.A. (2022)Analysis of Family Role in Hiv/Aids Prevention among the Ilajes’ of South Western Nigeria. Sapientia Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Development Studies.5(2);243-254.2695-2327https://repository.crawforduniversity.edu.ng/handle/123456789/134The global statistics on HIV/AIDS still show that over 40 million persons are infected. The sub-Saharan African countries contain above 60 percent of the Global burden and Nigeria, carries about 8 percent of the Global burden (Ifeanyi, 2004). There has been a steady increase in the HIV/AIDS prevalence in Nigeria is since the 1980s. While worldwide spending on AIDS treatment totalled between $3.3million and 4.5 million in 1990, only two percent of the money was spent in Africa where 50 percent of the world’s AIDS cases are found. Expectedly, the developed countries provided over 84 percent of the amount. However the world health organization stressed that in order to have any real hope of slowing the spread of the epidemic, the world needs to spend at least 20 times more in developing countries in the global fight against AIDS. The organization also pointed out that what the world community commits to preventing AIDS in the4 next couple of years will directly affect the course of the epidemic over the next two or three decades. In response to the epidemic, various measures have been taken at the local, national and international levels to prevent the transmission. Despite such programmes for prevention, efforts to date have not been sufficiently impactful to adequately control HIV/AIDS. Various drugs have been invented, new once are being discovered and administered, yet people are still being infected and are still subjected to various excruciating experiences. Prevention remains the best way of capturing the epidemic. Therefore in recognition of existing lacunae in previous programmes and attempts made to prevent the epidemic, the study examines roles of the family in HIV/AIDS prevention.enArticle