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More than 32,000 persons living with HIV on anti-retroviral drugs are skipping their medications, posing a threat to national control efforts.
According to the Ministry of Health, the figure could be as high as 60,000 considering that the report was published on December 1 and based on the Kenya Aids Indicator Survey 2012 when only 500,000 were on anti-retroviral. A report released by Health Cabinet Secretary Dr Cleopa Mailu in June at a UN meeting which put the number of Kenyans on ARVs at 900,000 was disputed.
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