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Murang’a county sponsors have been balamed for the rise in the HIV/AIDS infection from the area.

HIV/AIDS prevalence in Murang’a has shot up from two to five percent within three years.

According to Mary Ng’ethe, the Executive Director of Masaa Africa, the rich men usually lure young girls with money where they

It was blamed on alcoholism and rich men who lure college girls with money in what is Ms Ng’ethe said those mostly affected by the disease are women, a pattern attributed to extra marital affairs.

“Murang’a and indeed Kenya as a whole has a challenge in addressing the menace of alcohol and drug abuse. “Alcohol has been declared as the major cause of HIV and poverty in Murang’a