Chronic Infections among University Students: A Review

Abstract

The percentage of university students currently nursing chronic infections/diseases is alarming, and for a long time, these students are ever thought to be healthy. However, research shows otherwise and management of students’ health should be recognized and efforts be directed towards the same. This paper aimed to review the work done by other researchers concerning university students when it comes to chronic diseases and their health, make general comments and emphasize the need to have stakeholders focus on university students in terms of acquiring the right and modern technology meet for dealing with the elephant in the room. About 25 published papers were selected from the internet as they came across and a summary was made from each on what the researchers found concerning the university students’ health and chronic diseases. It was found that no researcher didn’t find unhealthy students and up to 30% of the students can be found infected in a given university. All concluded that the health of the students is deteriorating with time. Therefore, there is a need for stakeholders such as university managements, governments, non-governmental organizations among others to deal with the situation before it’s too late. University students are the next-immediate workforce and their health should not be left to fate. Once this workforce is maimed, there shall be a big problem in the future when things slip out of hand.