AN EXPOSITION OF THE ROLE OF FAITH, SEX, AND RELIGIOUS ON HIV/AIDS AMONG TERTIARY EDUCATION STUDENTS IN LAGOS NIGERIA

Abstract

In every community all over the world volunteers discuss HIV/AIDS transmission
and its prevention. The study is a survey that sought to identify the role of condom
in protecting HIV/AIDS. Nine months ago, I waited anxiously in the Education
Hall as the clock approached the start time for our first student panel discussion on
faith and sexual ethics, and the hall remained quiet as a few audience members
passed the time in their chairs. That was the beginning of “In God we believe, in
condoms we trust”. With so many other interesting events on our campus, would
anyone show up to hear their peers-not experts or intellectuals-discuss religion and
sex freely? To my surprise, the quiet crowd eventually grew to nearly two hundred
and fifty students, many of whom squatted on the floor or squeezed in along the
walls around the cramped room to participate in "Homosexuality and Religion,"
the first panel's title and theme. ," the phenomenally popular student discussion
series I had the privilege of facilitating through University Student Research
Fellowship at the West African Christian university Center for Applied Ethics this
year. In conjunction with over 50 one-on-one interviews. In identifying the
methodological trends in ethical discernment through the discussion series,
students were challenged to mindfully consider their own methods of ethical
discernment and invited to critically assess their own sexual ethics and those of
their peers. This study also highlighted the theoretical issues, trends in student
ethical strategies, faith and student views and strategies analysis.