The picture of HIV in Kenya

# The picture of HIV in Kenya (2011)

HIV prevalence
HIV prevalence
Kenya’s HIV prevalence now stands at 5.6 percent, halved from its peak of 10.5 percent in 1996. But data shows that the country’s HIV epidemic is not as generalised as previously thought. Hyper-epidemics persist in parts of the country. For instance, Homa Bay the county had an HIV prevalence of 27 per cent in 2011, the highest in the counry, according to government’s county factsheet 2013.

New HIV infection
New HIV infection
HIV continues to be a major public health challenge in Kenya, where an estimated 1.6 million people were living with HIV in 2011 and over 100,000 of these had acquired HIV infection the year before, making Kenya's HIV epidemic the fourth largest worldwide.

HIV treatment coverage
HIV treatment
One out of every three HIV positive people is on treatment. Antiretroviral therapy reduces illness, deaths and sexual transmission of HIV.

Mother to child transmission of HIV per county
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
In 2011, the mother-to-child transmission rate of HIV in Kenya was 15 per cent. Universal antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected pregnant women will be essential in achieving Kenyan's target of under five per cent by 2015.