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Epidemiology

The people of Kenya need your immediate help.

  • Kenya is ranked #8 with HIV/AIDS affecting 6.7% of its adult population, appx. 1.20 million people infected.
  • Unemployment rate is 40% (2001) and 50% of the population exist below the poverty level (2000).
  • Food and waterborne diseases hepatitis A, typhoid fever and malaria threaten daily life.
  • 150,000 people died in 2003 from HIV/AIDS in Kenya, average age is 18 years. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ke.html

Total population. mid-2005

33.8 million

HIV prevalence 15-49

6.7%

Tuberculosis death rate

132/100,000 population

Malaria death rate (children under 5)

334/100,000 population

GNI Per capita , 2004

1,050 (US$)

Life expectancy at birth

47 years

Infant mortality rate

77/1,000 live births

Total fertility rate

4.9 per woman

Crude birth rate

38/1,000 population

Crude death rate

15/1,000 population

Adult male literacy level

89% (pct. 15+ literate)

Adult female literacy level

76% (pct. 15+ literate)

Contraceptive prevalence rate, modern methods

32% of women in union

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Adults and children, end 2003

1,200,000

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Adults and children, end 2001

1,300,000

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Adults (15-49), end 2003

1,100,000

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Adults (15-49), end 2001

1,200,000

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Adults (15-49) rate (%), 2003/2004

6.7%

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Adults (15-49) rate (%), 2001

8.0%

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Women 15-49, end 2003

720,000

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Women 15-49, end 2001

750,000

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Children (0-14), end 2003

100,000

Estimated number of people living with HIV:
Children (0-14), end 2001

100,000

AIDS deaths in adults and children, end 2003

150,000

AIDS deaths in adults and children, end 2001

140,000

Orphans due to AIDS (0-17), living 2003

650,000

Orphans due to AIDS (0-17), living 2001

500,000

Demographic data contained in this section was obtained from the following sources: The 2005 World Population Data Sheet of the Population Reference Bureau was used for total population, life expectancy at birth, infant mortality, fertility, birth rate, death rate, % of population 15-49 with HIV/AIDS and the GNI per capita (2002).

Malaria-Kenya-WHO

Within this fragile health sector malaria continues to burden the over-stretched health services in Kenya. Malaria constitutes over 30% of all clinic attendance's and hospital admissions. Such figures, however, do not reflect the burden to the population at large and recent estimates suggest that approximately 26,000 children under the age of five die each year from the direct consequences of malaria (Snow et al., 1998).

Tuberculosis has made an opportunistic comeback in conjunction with the AIDS epidemic. From a low of 11,000 cases in 1988, tuberculosis cases reached 40,000 in 1997, and 73,000 cases in 2001. Malaria is also a serious public health concern, with over 4.3 million cases reported in 1995.

Kenya is a remarkably young nation, with 70 percent of the population under age 20. It is the youngest adults who are hardest hit by the current AIDS crisis, with 70 percent of HIV positive persons between the ages of 18 and 25. HIV has hit young women much harder than young men, with HIV infection rates among 15 to 19 year old women exceeding 20 percent in some areas of the country, as opposed to 4 percent for men in the same age category. The Medicins Sans Frontieres program in the Lake Victoria region estimates that 35 percent of young women in the area have contracted HIV, and 60 percent of those women have latent, if not active, TB. It is estimated that about 51 percent of Kenya's adult TB cases are also HIV+.

Despite this, 23 percent of Kenya's 32 million people do not have access to basic health care facilities.