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Kenya faces a severe, generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic that continues to … In 1999, Kenya declared HIV/AIDS a national disaster and public health emergency. …

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KENYA
Estimated number of people needing antiretroviral therapy (0-49 years), 2005: 273 000**
Antiretroviral therapy target declared by country:
December 2005
95 000 by the end of 2005
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. World Health Organization 2005
The National AIDS Control Council has developed the Kenya National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan 2005-2010; its overriding theme is social change to reduce HIV/AIDS and poverty. The
Sessional Paper No. 4 of 1997 provides a policy framework to guide all partners in Kenya’s response to the challenges of HIV/AIDS. Other supportive policies include a policy on
condom use, national guidelines on voluntary counselling and testing, guidelines on national home-based care programmes and services, guidelines on blood safety, guidelines on
antiretroviral therapy and guidelines on preventing mother-to-child transmission. National treatment guidelines have been developed, and a new policy on diagnostic testing and
counselling was recently finalized and disseminated.
Vulnerable groups include AIDS orphans, pregnant women and rural populations living in areas with a high burden of disease. Girls and young women are particularly vulnerable to
infection. Women 15-24 years of age are more than twice as likely to be infected as men this age. The prevalence of HIV…