{"id":571,"date":"2022-07-12T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=571"},"modified":"2022-07-12T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:12:01","slug":"outbreak-of-hiv-prevalence-among-youths-under-18years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/07\/12\/outbreak-of-hiv-prevalence-among-youths-under-18years\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbreak of HIV prevalence among youths under 18years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Report shows that youths are the most affected in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of 35,000 HIV infected patients only 8,000 are under treatment according to the National Aids Control council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace Masha ,CEO National Aids Control say mostly affected are youths under the age of 18years old who are school dropout and unemployed youths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;High use of drugs like marijuana and heroine,peer group influence plays a biggest part &#8221; she say<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However she say they are working with all stakeholders to increase the number under the treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey done shows HIV infections prevalence among our prisons is on the increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want to build centres of testing and treatments at our prisons including Shimo la Tewa,Industrial area and at the GK prison,&#8221; said Fayzal Sollimoni ,Head Health and Social Development UNODC,Regional Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report shows that youths are the most affected in Kenya. Out of 35,000 HIV infected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}