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KEY FINDINGS: HIV PREVALENCE• Of adults aged 15-64 years, an estimated 7.1%, or 1.42 million people, were living with HIVinfection in <strong>2007</strong>. Prevalence among adults aged 15-49 years was 7.4%, and was notstatistically different from the 2003 KDHS estimate (6.7%).• Prevalence among youth aged 15-24 years was 3.8%. Older <strong>Kenya</strong>ns, aged 50-64 years,sometimes considered to have low risk for HIV, had a HIV prevalence of 5.0%.• Women were more likely to be infected (8.4%) than men (5.4%). In particular, young womenaged 15-24 years were four times more likely to be infected (5.6%) than young men of thesame age group (1.4%).• There was wide regional variation in HIV prevalence among adults aged 15-64 years, rangingfrom 14.9% in Nyanza province to 0.8% in North Eastern province.• HIV prevalence among uncircumcised men aged 15-64 years was three times greater thanamong circumcised men (13.2% vs. 3.9%, respectively).Prevalence of HIV and trends<strong>National</strong> HIV prevalence was estimated to be 7.1% among adults aged 15‐64 years. Women weremore likely to be infected (8.4%) than men (5.4%), and young women aged 15‐24 years were fourtimes more likely to be infected (5.6%) than young men of the same age group (1.4%). The overallHIV prevalence in adults aged 50‐64 was 5.0%. Significant differences in HIV prevalence werefound across provinces. HIV prevalence among adults aged 15‐64 years in urban areas was 8.4%and in rural areas was 6.7%. An estimated 1,027,000 adults living with HIV in <strong>Kenya</strong> resided inrural areas, and 390,000 lived in urban areas. Of all HIV‐infected adults aged 15‐64 years, overhalf (51.4%) lived in Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces.The 2003 KDHS surveyed women and men aged 15‐49 years and estimated that 6.7% of thispopulation was infected with HIV in 2003. In the <strong>2007</strong> <strong>KAIS</strong>, HIV prevalence among those aged15‐49 years was 7.4% and was not statistically different from the 2003 estimate. HIV prevalenceamong adults aged 15‐49 years in urban areas decreased from 10.0% in the 2003 KDHS to 8.7% in<strong>KAIS</strong>, while HIV prevalence in rural areas increased from 5.6% to 7.0%; these differences were notstatistically significant.<strong>KAIS</strong> <strong>2007</strong> 9

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