HIV /AIDS IN KENYA
There are 40 million HIV-positive people worldwide. 70% of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, more than 2 million people are infected with the HIV virus. In Karungu, where the St. Camillus Mission Hospital operates, there are over 5,000 HIV-positive individuals out of a population of approximately 20,000 inhabitants.
In western countries, access to antiretroviral therapy, effective in the treatment of AIDS, has drastically reduced the death rate, but in the south of the world people continue to die because of the too high cost of drugs.
In 2001, 2.3 million people died in Sub-Saharan Africa as a result of AIDS, including 500,000 children.
The project KARP, active since 2004 at the San Camillo Hospital in Karungu, has supported 11,698 patients of whom 6097 follow antiretroviral therapy.
To reach the target of 90% of the population to know the status of HIV by 2020, include 90% of the population in the antiretroviral therapy program and ensure that 90% of patients follow the therapy successfully, an innovative approach involving all stakeholders is necessary.
The infection among newborns can be eliminated when access to the PMTCT program – Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission – is extended to all pregnant women, encouraging them to seek care at professionally well-equipped facilities for childbirth.
Do we want this plague to continue because of our indifference?
In Kenya, despite the recent reduction in the cost of drugs, antiretroviral therapy remains inaccessible to the majority of the local population. With your help many children, young people, moms and dads could be saved.
Con 25 € (euro) al mese salvi una vita.
In Kenya, despite the recent reduction in the cost of drugs, antiretroviral therapy remains inaccessible to the majority of the local population. With your help many children, young people, moms and dads could be saved.
It is important to point out that this is a therapy that cannot be interrupted; for this reason we ask you for continuity in supporting us.
Let’s fight AIDS with intelligence, love, and respect.
Obillo Meshack – A.R.T. Programme Coordinator
Documents
- ART Annual Report 2004-05
- ART Annual Report 2005-06
- ART Annual Report 2006-07
- ART Annual Report 2007-08
- ART Annual Report 2008-09
- ART Annual Report 2009-10
- ART Annual Report 2010-11
- ART Annual Report 2011-12
- ART Annual Report 2012-13
- ART Annual Report 2014
- ART Annual Report 2014-15
- ART Annual Report 2016
- ART Annual Report 2017
- ART Annual Report 2018
- ART Annual Report 2019
- ART Annual Report 2020
- ART Annual Report 2021
- ART Annual Report 2022
- ART Annual Report 2023
- ART Annual Report 2024
DOCUMENTS
ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS (ADR) IN KENYA 2010-2015
Kenya has been a member of the WHO International Drug Monitoring Programme since 4 May 2010 and has since that year sent ADR reports to the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC).
As of December 31, 2015, a total of 8,852 health facilities had been submitted across the country that participated in the exercise within the initial period of 5 years, the St. Camillus Mission Hospital, Karungu was rated second after a provincial government Hospital, teaching and postponing Moi, Eldoret.
This was reported in “The Lifesaver”, a publication of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Kenya, 6th Edition, published in September 2016. The classes of drugs being evaluated include ARV, antibiotics, anti-TB, antimalarial, anti-hypertensive and anti-cancer. Meshack hob. A.R.T. Program Coordinator
Testimonies
PAUL AND BETTY: TOGETHER WINNERS
We thank the St. Camillus Mission Hospital in Karungu, which, through KCCB-KARP, gives us the opportunity to share our story during the conclusion of the first phase of the KARP I project and the beginning of KARP II at this meeting on May 30, 2017, in Kisumu.
We are living witnesses proving that good adherence to antiretroviral therapy, a strong psychological support network, and adequate care from health centers allow people to live a long, normal, and healthy life.
We hope that our story reaches someone and helps change the way they perceive their own condition.
Paul e Betty – June 13rd, 2017
MERESA ATIENO, PATIENT NUMBER ONE
My name is Meresa Atieno, I am 38 years old, married, and a mother of three children. I live in the town of Sori in Karungu, Migori County. I was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2002 at St. Camillus Hospital while working there as a cleaner. I decided to take an HIV test because I was often sick and suffered from opportunistic infections that required hospitalization. Dr. Bertha, who was the head physician of the medical ward at the time, advised me and my family members to get tested for HIV. I tested positive…
Maresa Atieno – November 28th, 2016
