About 54,000 Kenyans are using the daily HIV prevention pill today up from 9,000 a year ago. This is the second highest use in the world after US, which has 197,000 users in a population of 325 million. This is a major jump from just about 9,000 early last year, to 27,000 in November and 54,000 now. The pill known as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and taken daily by HIV negative people to protect them against infection was officially launched in Kenya in 2017. Read More
