National Aids Control Council (NACC) South Nyanza Regional Coordinator Mr Reuben Mokaya has called on Kisii County health stakeholders to come up with policies that will assist in reducing the number of HIV/Aids infections in the county.
Mokaya said the county was at risk of having its current prevalence rate of 2.8 per cent rising, since the neighbouring counties of Nyamira and Bomet had a prevalence of 5.1 and 7.6 per cent respectively.
He was speaking during a two day Kisii County HIV/Aids stakeholders’ workshop at a Kisii Hotel on Wednesday.
“We want Kenya to be a HIV/Aids free nation and therefore there is need for all stakeholders to ensure that they join hands to ensure the rates of infection go down,” Mokaya said.
“I want to ask all stakeholders to be health ambassadors and encourage mothers to deliver in hospitals and allow only trained health workers to circumcise their boys,” he said.
The participants called upon the national and county governments to allocate more funds to boost the fight against HIV virus in the country, pointing out that 67 per cent of funding to fight the deadly virus come from international donors.
This comes barely three days after the county government of Kisii arrested over three hundred prostitutes in the town and took them to Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital and for sexually transmitted diseases testing.