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How did Kenya build Africa’s largest PrEP programme?

How did Kenya build Africa’s largest PrEP programme?

aidsmap.com - "Around 25,000 people are taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Kenya, making it Africa’s largest PrEP programme, ahead of South Africa (9000 people), Uganda (4000) and Zimbabwe (4000). The roll-out was recently described by officials from Kenya’s Ministry of Health in the journal Sexual Health and also at October's HIV Research for Prevention conference.

Overall 5.6% of Kenya’s approximately 50 million citizens are living with HIV, but HIV risk is not evenly distributed. A third of all new infections are in adolescent girls and young women, aged 15 to 24. Another third of new infections are in ‘key populations’ – sex workers, men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs." (Photo: AIDS2018/MMS)

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