Kenya making “huge progress” in fight against HIV/AIDS

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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenya is making great strides in tackling HIV/AIDS, with a fall in the HIV positive population and a surge in the number of people getting tested and receiving treatment, according to a government survey released on Tuesday.

Kenya has the fourth largest HIV positive population in the world, after South Africa, Nigeria and India. But the number of Kenyans living with the disease fell from 1.4 million to 1.2 million between 2007 and 2012, the 2012 Kenya Aids Indicator Survey revealed on Tuesday.

The prevalence of HIV among adults dropped from 7.2 to 5.6 percent in the same period.

“We’ve made huge progress in Kenya both in reducing the number of new infections and getting people living with HIV on treatment,” Maya Harper, the United Nations AIDS country director, said at the launch of the report. “Testing, knowledge of status, male circumcision in Nyanza, access to treatment – I think those have been great leaps forward in Kenya in the last five years.”

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