KEMRI research officer Hesbon Simba has said that Gender Based Violence (GBV) cases against minors in Kisumu County are at 80 per cent according to a Research Officer they conducted.
Simba said that the percentage is alarming and something needs to be done concerning the matter to ensure that such unbecoming behaviours are reduced or rather put to an end.
He said that the research focused from all the statistics of people going for treatment in various hospitals to those who do not visit any hospitals after being assaulted adding that most of the victims were were minors.
Speaking in Kisumu on Tueasday, Simba said that cases of incest within the county is high, a situation he said was proving more dangerous for girl child and women.
He noted that they are currently campaigning for most people to come out and speak against their ordeal and to receive care and treatment from Hospitals.
Simba said that cases of defilement mostly at community levels with some going unreported and the families resort to solving the matters amongst themselves.
He added that such incidences could cause a victim or survivors of rape, difilement to get new infections or expose them to chances of getting HIV.
Simba confirmed that the county has cases of 10,000 new infections every year, a situation he says is worrying a lot.
“Currently we have a Centre at The Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Referral and Teaching Hospital where such cases are being handled because we want to reach the zero new infections and HIV related deaths,” said Simba.
The County CeC for Education Jenipher Kere however claimed that minors in the county are being sexually abused more than anywhere else in the country and urged parents to be taking good care of their children as a way of reducing such cases.
CeC Kere claimed that minors are being abused both in Schools and their homes where they ought to be protected.