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Governors sue ministry over new Aids authority

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Governors have sued the Ministry of Health over the establishment of a National Syendemic Diseases Control Council (NSDCC) to replace the National Aids Control Council (NACC).

At the same time, civil society groups have faulted President Uhuru Kenyatta for restructuring the NACC to NDSCC and assigning it more roles besides its core mandate of ending the HIV epidemic in Kenya by 2030.

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