Kenya has been extolled as the world's role model for HIV-prevention, in a major report released by Bill Gates this week. Bill praised Kenya's voluntary medical male circumcision programme and the recent roll-out of pre-exposure prophylaxis as a first for the world. Bill and his wife Melinda Gates released the the report - Goalkeepers: The Stories Behind the Data - on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Pilot studies conducted in Kenya prove that if swallowed daily, the drug can prevent HIV infection by more than 96 per cent. In 2015, world leaders committed to the Global Goals, which are focused on ending extreme poverty and fighting inequalities.

Source: The Star September 14, 2017 19:07 UTC