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About 400,000 HIV patients in Kenya missed vital viral load test
Globally, Pepfar-supported HIV testing declined by 21 percent in the same quarter compared to a year earlier, falling from 21.9 million to 17.2 million tests, while diagnoses dropped from 385,000 to 307,000.
Nearly 400,000 people living with HIV in Kenya did not receive a viral load test in the final quarter of 2025, new data shows, a gap that could allow undetected treatment failures to silently accumulate across the country's antiretroviral programme.
Viral load testing measures the amount of HIV in a patient's blood. A suppressed result, generally below 1,000 copies per millilitre, indicates that treatment is working and the risk of transmission is low.
