How awareness helps in the fight to combat HIV, malaria and TB

Even as the country works towards increasing uptake of HIV testing, treatment and lowering of viral loads, only slightly more than half of people know about HIV prevention. [iStockphoto]

Sleeping under treated mosquito nets has proved to be an essential way to prevent malaria, even as the health ministry has adopted other proactive measures to fight two other killer diseases; tuberculosis and HIV/Aids.

According to the 2022 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey, at least 54 per cent of households in the country own insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), an increase from 40 per cent in 2015.