 
October 12, 2007
Kenya Breaks Out Meds—Will Drug Resistance Follow?
The Kenyan government has provided more than 160,000 citizens with antiretroviral medications—but now, experts say, it must create an aggressive treatment literacy campaign to prevent a surge of drug resistance (AIDSMap.com/PLUS News, 10/10).
HIV specialists report that treatment literacy is low among both patients and health workers. What’s more, a 2005 survey found only a third of doctors in the country had received HIV care and management training.
"The situation is more critical in western Kenya, where the poverty index is 65 percent, which has triggered high levels of non-adherence to treatment because of poor nutrition and access to correct information,” says Ken Odumbe, ActionAid Kenya's HIV coordinator for Western and Nyanza provinces.
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