[PHOTOS] NMS launches HIV, Aids awareness implementation plan

Every year since 1988, the world celebrates Aids Day on December 1, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease.

The Nairobi Metropolitan Services on Wednesday launched the Nairobi County HIV/AIDS Implementation plan 2020/21-2024/25 and commemoration of World AIDS Day at Undugu grounds in Mathare.

NMS has reported that the mother to child transmission rate for HIV in Nairobi is 10.1 per cent according to 2020 estimates.

This is as Nairobi has been marked to have the largest number or cases in the country, with an estimated 167,446 people living with HIV.

As the globe marks World Aids Day, Badi highlighted data that shows infection among adolescent girls in Nairobi is on the rise.

Badi said HIV still threatens the world despite 40 years since the first Aids cases were reported.

It is estimated that 40 per cent of new HIV infections occurs in adolescents and young persons between ages 15 – 24 years, with more burden felt among adolescents girl and young women, he noted.