AEGiS-IRIN: HIV/AIDS Deaths "Falling in Some Areas"

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HIV/AIDS Deaths "Falling in Some Areas"

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks - September 8, 2001

The director of Kenya's National HIV/AIDS Control Council, Margaret Gachara, has said that deaths associated with HIV/AIDS are declining in some parts of the country, the independent 'Daily Nation' newspaper reported on Friday. Gachara said as that increased life expectancy among HIV/AIDS patients in the Lake region (Nyanza area) and parts of Western Province could be attributed to improved medical and home-based care, and that education campaigns initiated by the government and NGOs had been successful.

The National HIV/AIDS Control Council has spent Ksh 94 million (US $1.2 million) in setting up HIV/AIDS control units in government ministries, the 'Nation' reported. Meanwhile, Gachara told a press conference on Thursday that the Council would release a full report on HIV/AIDS in Kenya in October.
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