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Meru records 635 new HIV infections every year, says PS

Health PS Susan Mochache and Meru Governor Kiraitu Murungi. [Phares Mutembei, Standard]

About 635 persons are getting infected with HIV every year in Meru County. 

Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health Susan Mochache made the revelation during a community sensitisation forum on the Triple Threat – teenage pregnancies, HIV and gender-based violence – at Kaaga Primary school in Meru on Thursday.

Mochache said the figure was a drop from 1,500 infections recorded in 2016.

However, she…

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