National Councils Call for Enhanced HIV Awareness and Responsible Reporting
They sensitise on the need of declining the rate at which HIV is transmitted and also reduce the HIV rate within the people living with HIV infection.
National syndemic Disease and control council in collaboration with Media council convened for a meeting at Cicada hotel in uasin gishu county to be sensitive on HIV infections in the county and the country at large. Photo/NSDCC.
By Juliet Jerotich
National syndemic Disease and control council in collaboration with Media council convened for a meeting at Cicada hotel in uasin gishu county to be sensitive on HIV infections in the county and the country at large.
They sensitise on the need of declining the rate at which HIV is transmitted and also reduce the HIV rate within the people living with HIV infection.
Lyn Kabaka ,also urges the journalist within uasin gishu in the use of proper language when they are reporting news on syndemic and non communicable diseases.
Lucy Okatch also highlighted the epidemic appraisal in the country.
She also added that (KASF)Kenya Aids Strategic Framework has prioritised HIV prevention and has set a goal to reduce infection rate at 75%.
She added that Kenya is Globally at position 7 with 1.4 million people living with HIV.
Key data 2023 data 1378457 people live with HIV and as according to National prevalence is 3.3% with men 2.2% and women 4.5% and and children at 71,433 with HIV aid.
Lucy also added that as per the research , Kisumu leads at 11.7% and Wajir with a small percentage of 0.1%.
She further added that the new infection of HIV AIDS occurs highly at the adolescence stage and youth aged 15-24 years since they are sexually active .The Trailers (0_14) is at 3,743 persons.women are 8, 957and men at 4,072.
She further noted that there is an increase of deaths between 2022 and 2023 by 2007 deaths.
Further Lucy added that 63%mother to child transition due to transition related to non_useof drop off from antiretroviral therapy and also 200,000 pregnant women missed HIV test due to non attendance at the first antenatal clinic becoming a challenge to eliminate mother_child transmission of HIV.
Ken Mwogoo also noted that there is an increase in mortality rate among men compared to women . This occured due to men’s neglecting to for HIV test and proper medication
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