Kenya recorded 42,000 new HIV infections in 2019, a report has revealed.
The Global Policy Report indicates that this was a decrease of 30 per cent since 2014.
According to the report, 0nly 74 per cent of people living with HIV were on ARVs in the same year.
Another 63 per cent of Children are on antiretroviral treatment.
This the report further indicates was an increase of 22 per cent from 52 per cent in 2014.
As a result, Kenya doers do not meet targets for the 90/90/90 goals.
Out of the 33 international HIV policies, Kenya has adopted only 20 with three being partially adopted, nine policies yet to be adopted and data not available for one policy.
There are about 1.5 million people living with HIV in the country with a 4.5 per cent HIV prevalence in adults aged between 15-49 years.
Kenya recorded some 21,000 AIDS-related deaths in 2019.
Kenya has the joint third-largest HIV epidemic in the world alongside Tanzania.
