Erick Okioma News Today

Laboratories in government health facilities have a backlog of samples for vital HIV tests.

Patients claimed that the cost of each test is between Ksh10,000 to Ksh20,000, depending on the hospital.

Known as places for idle talk and gossip, barbershops have proven to be effective distribution points for condoms.

Informal settlement areas in Kisumu County have been mapped out as areas with the highest prevalence of Tuberculosis.

A group of Activists from Kisumu is appealing to the county government to partner with the National Environment Management Authority and sensitize the public on the proper means of disposing diapers.

Persons Living with HIV/AIDS now want the government to address the current shortage of HIV Pre and Post Exposure Prophylaxis drugs popularly known as PREPs and PEPs.

1 of 4 Protesters hold empty containers of anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines during a demonstration over shortages of ARVs, organized by people living with HIV or AIDS, sex-workers, members of the LGBT community, and their supporters, in the port city of Mombasa, Kenya, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger due to a shortage of anti-retroviral drugs donated by the United States amid a dispute between the U.S. aid agency and the Kenyan govern...

HIV Drugs Run Short in Kenya as People Say Lives at Risk By Tom Odula, Associated Press Published April 26, 2021 A medical worker attends to a coronavirus patient in the intensive care unit of an isolation and treatment center for those with COVID-19 in Machakos, south of the capital Nairobi, in Kenya Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. As Africa is poised to surpass 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases it is Kenya’s turn to worry the continent with a second surge in infections well under way. (AP Photo/...

People in Kenya say lives at risk as HIV drugs run short Al Jazeera English © The delay in distributing the drugs, in addition to supply constraints caused by the coronavirus pan... The delay in distributing the drugs, in addition to supply constraints caused by the coronavirus pandemic, means many people living with HIV are getting a weeks supply instead of three months [Brian Inganga/AP Photo] Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger because of a shortage of an...

HIV drugs run short in Kenya as people say lives at risk TOM ODULA, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger due to a shortage of anti-retroviral drugs donated by the United States amid a dispute between the U.S. aid agency and the Kenyan government. The delayed release of the drugs shipped to Kenya late last year is due to the government slapping a $847,902 tax on the donation, and the U.S. aid agency having “trust�...