Citation: Alemu F (2015) Assessment of the Prevalence of Hiv Infection at Four Health Facilities in Dilla Town, Ethiopia. J Aids Hiv Infec 1(1): 101. doi: 10.15744/2454-499X.1.101 Volume 1 | Issue 1 Journal of AIDS and HIV Infections Introduction The successful introduction and spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into the global human population may have first emerged among humans in the early part of the 20th century (most likely contracted from infected primates). However its spread among vulnerables populations may have occurred in the 1970s. In Europe and North America the first cases of HIV/AIDS was identified among certain high risk groups’ e.g. intravenous drug users, men having sex with men (MSM) etcs. HIV/AIDS is the common cause of death and morbidity among sexually active individuals in sub-Saharan Africa. The main objectives of this study was to assess the prevalence of HIV infection among patients attending four health centers in Dilla town from 2012-2014. Secondary data was obtained through assessing patients’ records at these facilities. The number of HIV infected individual highest at 2012 followed by 2014 and 2013, 47, 37 and 30 respectively in Selam Higher Clinic while, the highest number of HIV infected was 31, followed by 29 and 19 in the year of 2013, 2014 and 2012 respectively at Fitsum Medium Clinic. On the other hand, the highest number of HIV infected was 38, followed by 33 and 15 in the year of 2013, 2014 and 2012 at Muluneh Higher Clinic and the number of HIV infected at Hikma Medium Clinic the highest was 7 at 2013 followed at 2012 and 2014 at Hikma Medium Clinic. Generally, distribution of HIV infected individuals at those clinics was slightly decreased across the year even if the number of the voluntary counseling tests was increase in these clinics. Majority of the people that live with HIV virus were in their productive age (15-49 age) among both male and female. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome has become one of the world’s most serious health and development challenges [1]. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, the AIDS epidemic was noticed first in central Africa [2]. Soon after, the epidemic was observed in East Africa, and subsequently in West Africa [3]. There is a great deal of similarity between the HIV virus and an the human immunodeficiency virus is a retrovirus closely related to the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) which is responsible for clinical immunodeficiency in other non-human primates especially the Afrcian green monkey, although the SIV does not cause immune-suppression among monkeys. This apparent correlation has led to speculation among scientists that African hunters who butchered and ate monkeys (a traditional food source) might have been exposed to a mutated form of the virus that was infective to humans [4]. The discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (the virus responsible for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was in 1983 and the explosion of the AIDS epidemic that brought clinical virology to the forefront as a significant specialty [5]. Viruses infect all cellular life forms: eukaryotes (vertebrate animals, invertebrate animals, plants, fungi) and prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) [5].