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Caution sounded over Kenyan AIDS study

    JOHANNESBURG

    The UN's frontline HIV/AIDS agency has sounded caution over a Kenyan study suggesting that the country's AIDS rates may be lower than was previously thought.

    In a statement issued recently at its headquarters in Geneva, UNAIDS said news reports of lower AIDS rates were "unfounded" as key data in the Kenya study seemed flawed.

    The latest Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, which is conducted every five years, found that 6.7 percent of Kenyans were HIV-positive compared to the 2003 UNAIDS estimate of 9.4 percent.

    UNAIDS argued that these were conclusions "ripe with implications for the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa".

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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