PrEP uptake collapses by 80pc as donor funding dries up USAid contracts and grants worth Sh108.34 billion were terminated in Kenya, disrupting community health programmes. Health Just now Listen

Only 33 per cent did not see themselves as at risk of HIV at all, a figure that should give public health officials pause, given that one in three eligible people in communities with some of the highest HIV prevalence in the country did not believe the intervention was relevant to their lives.

Nearly one in three people in high-risk communities in the region had never heard of PrEP at all, an awareness gap that precedes every other barrier, since no one can take a drug they do not know exists.

Kenya enrolled 170,551 people on oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in 2022, the highest number the country has ever recorded in a single year.