Garissa medics have raised concern that the new guidelines on Hiv testing by the World Health Organization's may not deliver the expected results.
They health practitioners now say the condition is still highly dreaded in the region and that giving patients drugs the minute they test positive for the virus, will make the majority of them disregard treatment.
Ahmed Hussein, a clinician at the district's referral facility, said that out of the 2600 that were selected on treatment in 2003, but a sum of 1260 of them could not be accounted for in the medication schedules.
Ahmed said that the patients lost patients to the 'test and treat' initiative were as a result of the most recent WHO rules on the administration of HIV.
Test and Treat requires that patients must be put on drugs before they hit the 500 characteristic of their CD4 number.
"I don't imagine that it will address the primary issue that we have here, which is shame. We are selecting a considerable number of clients but equally losing them in the process," Ahmed said.