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"There's an assumption older people aren’t acquiring HIV, or are not having sex."

Commercial sex workers are being blamed for the spike in HIV infections in Taita Taveta county.

As the fight to reduce HIV and Aids burden continues, more Kenyans are now resorting to self-testing kits to know their status.

In Nandi County, for instance, the paediatric Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) drugs have been out of stock for three months, according to Anne Rono, the National Empowerment Network of People Living with HIV and Aids in Kenya (Nephak) county representative. The ITP drugs for newly diagnosed HIV patients are also out of stock and ”TB drugs for children who have been in contact with adults who have TB are missing,” said Rono. It is not clear when to expect the medicine, she said. The ITP drugs ...