Sexual Behaviors, Experiences and How the Hearing Impaired Guard against HIV/AIDS
Cecilia Alimatu Issaka*
Citation : Cecilia Alimatu Issaka, Sexual Behaviors, Experiences and How the Hearing Impaired Guard against HIV/AIDSInternational Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education 2019, 6(1) : 18-31.
One of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), goal 3, is to "ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages." Persons with hearing impairment are among the population groups most likely to suffer further from the HIV/AIDS menace.But data that allow the analysis of the link between the hearing impairment and their sexual behaviours, experiences and how they guard themselves against HIV/AIDS is scarce. This research employed descriptive cross-sectional design methods to examine the link between sexual behaviours and experiences of the hearing impaired and how they are able to guard themselves against HIV/AIDS. Hearing impaired youth exhibit diverse and erratic sexual behaviours, recount wild interesting sexual experiences and adopt weird HIV protection techniques. Rigorous efforts are needed from the Government of Ghana and Development partners to make meaning to the hearing impaired sexual reproductive health situation if SDG 3 is anything to be holistically achieved in Ghana.