{"id":191497,"date":"2025-02-15T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-aids-care-agency-urges-urgent-condom-access-reforms-amid-declining-donor-support\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:12:18","slug":"kenya-aids-care-agency-urges-urgent-condom-access-reforms-amid-declining-donor-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-aids-care-agency-urges-urgent-condom-access-reforms-amid-declining-donor-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Aids Care Agency Urges Urgent Condom Access Reforms Amid Declining Donor Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Despite over a million sexually transmitted infections (STIs) being acquired globally each day, Kenya continues to face major challenges in condom access, worsened by dwindling donor funding and high taxation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Young people account for 56.8 per cent of all new infections, and 14 per cent of those in need of contraception cannot access it. Limited condom affordability and availability pose a serious public health risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">To address this, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Kenya marked&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502140263.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 Despite over a million sexually transmitted infections (STIs) being acquired globally each day, Kenya continues to face major challenges in condom access, worsened by dwindling donor funding and high taxation. Young people account for 56.8 per cent of all new infections, and 14 per cent of those in need of contraception cannot access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[6450,258,256,5981,3538,5732,17763,16093,22321,4688,430,257,7580,254,6096,11318,6810],"class_list":["post-191497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agency","tag-aids","tag-care","tag-condom","tag-declining","tag-donor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-reforms","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-urgent","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}