Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1995. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1995. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia, Inc. - 2 Dec 1995
Angatia was quoted in the East African Standard newspaper as saying some 300,000 Kenyan children had already been orphaned because their parents had died of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
He said the government was hard-pressed to provide hospital care to victims of the incurable disease which destroys the body's immune system and the future increase would place a huge economic and social burden on the government.
Angatia said about one million Kenyans were infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) which causes AIDS and that figure was expected to rise to 1.6 million by the year 2000.
Health educators say the main problem hindering a national effort to contain the spread of AIDS was that Kenyans had not changed their social behavior.
Addressing a World AIDS Day gathering in Western Kisii Friday, Agriculture Minister Simeon Nyachae told a predominantly rural audience that abstention from casual sex was the best prevention for AIDS.
The first cases of AIDS were detected in Kenya in 1984.
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