National Aids Control Council (NACC) has made public counties in Kenya with the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Nairobi County hosting Kenya’s capital city made it to top 10 with a prevalence of 6.1 percent which is higher than the National Prevalence which is 4.9 percent.
The NACC also acknowledged that people living with HIV/AIDS had dropped for the last eight years. .
They also added that such cases had gone down with a drop in prevalence among adults aged between 15-49 dropping from 0.35 in 2010 to 0.19 last year.
For the last eight years across the country, those living with HIV/AIDS had dropped from 77,200 to 52,800.
Here are top 10 counties of people living with HIV aids
- Siaya (21 percent),
- Homabay (20.7 percent),
- Kisumu (16.3 percent),
- Migori (13.3 percent)
- Busia (7.7 percent).
- Nairobi (6.1 percent),
- Kisii (4.4 percent),
- Trans Nzoia (4.3 percent)
- Murang’a and Nyamira tied at 4.2 percent.