Kidero: Nairobi leading in adult HIV infections

By MARGARET KANINI

Nairobi, Kenya: Nairobi County has the highest number of new adult HIV infections at 13,510 per year and the highest HIV incidence among children at 1,715 new infections per year.

This, according to Governor Evans Kidero, is because people are reluctant to use condoms consistently.

“Sexual transmission remains the driving force for the epidemic nationally,” Kidero said in his speech read on his behalf by Dr Sam Ochola, the county director for health.

This was during the first World Condoms Day marked in Nairobi on Thursday.

Only 43 per cent of males and 11 per cent of females aged between 15 and 24, 14 per cent of males and five per cent of females aged between 25 and 64 used condoms consistently.

The governor said that due to these inconsistencies, Nairobi County also has a very high HIV and Aids prevalence of 8.6 per cent while the prevalence nationwide stood at 5.6 per cent as of last year.