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Thousands of HIV kits expire next month

Thousands of unused HIV rapid strip test kits in county laboratories will expire on November 6 and will have to be disposed of. The kits were supplied to 47 county referral hospitals last year.

Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) CEO Jonah Manjari said the affected counties should fill and send to the parastatal forms indicating the number of stripes to be collected for safe disposal.

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