The Kenya AIDS Progress report provides an update of the AIDS response based on the estimate data for 2016. This report provides insight of key indicators of the epidemic and builds on the Global AIDS Progress Update Report 2016 launched in Nairobi Kenya by UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé and myself. This is in line with the sixth Strategic Direction of the Kenya AIDS Strategic Framework (KASF) 2014/2015-2018/2019 which aims at promoting utilization of strategic information for research, monitoring and evaluation in order to enhance evidence based programming.
Kenya signed the 2011 UN Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS (General Assembly Resolution No. 65/277), adopted in June 2011 at the United Nations General Assembly High‐Level Meeting on AIDS. The Global AIDS Progress Update Report 2016 marked the transition period between Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report thus marks the baseline against which the country will assess progress in implementation of the 2016 United Nations Political declaration on HIV and AIDS made in June this year.
Kenya has set itself on a path to fast track the end of AIDS. This is guided by the national development blue print of Vision 2030 and the Kenya AIDS Strategic Framework (KASF) 2014/2015-2018/2019. The country aims at leveraging national and external resources to achieve a Kenya free of new HIV infections, stigma and AIDS related deaths.
The 2016 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS; On the Fast-Track to Accelerate the Fight against HIV and to End the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 provides the momentum needed for Kenya to achieve its ambitious goals.
We thank all our partners and stakeholders as we mark the progress made in our AIDS response and call upon their continued support to achieve the targets set out in the Kenya AIDS Strategic Framework (KASF) 2014/2015- 2018/2019 as well as those of the 2016 global fast track declaration.
Dr. Cleopa Mailu EBS
Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Health