Panafrican News Agency - November 27, 2001
The officials say at least 20 people go for voluntary counselling and testing daily in centres recently established under the CDC, a Kenyan Medical Research Institute (Kemri) project in Kisumu, western Kenya.
"We are witnessing encouraging visits of voluntary testing, especially among youths who intend to marry," says Manasse Amolo, a project supervisor.
According to Amolo, about 70 percent of those volunteering for testing at the centres are male.
Teresa Akun, a co-ordinator in the Prevention of Mothers to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS project, says men seem to find the centres more private and easily accessible.
A CDC laboratory technologist, Linus Odawo, is of the opinion that the introduction of rapid testing kits has improved testing of HIV in rural parts of the country.
He says those going for HIV testing are now able to get their results immediately as opposed to the past when they had to wait for up to two weeks.
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