The County Government of Nakuru has assured residents that its health facilities have adequate stocks of anti-retroviral and Tuberculosis drugs amid fears over USAID funding freeze.
The freeze, announced by President Donald Trump, would see Kenya lose more than Sh25 billion yearly towards the health sector-driven programmes affecting more than 41,500 healthcare workers.
The assurance comes amid heightened fears among the users of the critical medicines whose supplies have been funded by the US government since the year 2003 at the height of the HIV/AIDs pandemic.
Deputy Governor David Kones advised residents living with the virus to take their antiretroviral (ARVs) pills as directed by their doctors without fear of stocks running out, adding that there were adequate quantities of ARVs for both prevention and treatment at all the Antiretroviral therapy (ART) sites within the devolved unit.
