Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu is expected to showcase Kenya's tremendous progress in the fight against HIV at a major UN meeting in New York this week. Among the global targets is to have less than 500,000 new HIV infections annually in addition to less than 500,000 people dying from AIDS-related causes by 2020. Worldwide, it is estimated that 22 million people living with HIV, without access to treatment. Mailu and the Kenyan delegation left the country on Tuesday for the UN High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, which began on Wednesday and ends on Friday. An extra 50 per cent of the world’s population is living with the virus unknowingly.

Source: The Star June 08, 2016 18:54 UTC