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households that received no support to help care for their sick members. There were nosignificant differences in the pattern of support by sex. Sick adults in urban areas tended toreceive more medical and material support than rural households, while rural householdstended to receive more emotional and social or practical support than adults in urban areas;these differences were no statistically significant. Adults aged 60 years or older were morelikely to have received medical (17.3%) or social support (25.3%), and subsequently anysupport (47.1%) compared to younger age groups. Looking across all types of support, amarginally higher percent of chronically sick adults in Central province (58.3%) received anytype of support compared to other provinces; Nyanza had the lowest percent for any type ofsupport at 25.6%.14.11 GAPS AND UNMET NEEDS• Increasing efforts to capture and record all births, especially in provinces with largerural areas, could help policy makers better plan for services in these areas.• Most HIV-affected households do not know they are affected because the HIVinfectedmember in the home is unaware of his or her HIV status. Increasingknowledge of HIV status among HIV-infected persons and supportive disclosure tofamily members could increase the number of households able to provide care andsupport for their HIV-infected household member and long-term planning for thewell-being of the household• In most HIV-infected households, the infected member is the head of the household.Programs are need to support these households in case the infected head ofhousehold becomes too ill to support the household.• Most households do not treat their drinking water leaving household memberspotentially vulnerable to infections and illness. Universal access to safe drinkingwater would benefit all households and keep HIV-infected and uninfected membershealthier.• At the time of the survey, an estimated 2.0 million households were in need of amosquito bednet in order to reach the national target of 80% household coverage.• More than one in 10 children in <strong>Kenya</strong> have lost their mother or father or both. Mostof these children are living in households that received no external support.• Care and support for chronically ill adults could be improved by increasing generalknowledge and awareness of existing services for this group.<strong>KAIS</strong> <strong>2007</strong> 266

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