Gates report lauds Kenyan programme

Bill and Melinda Gates praise Kenya’s voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) programme and recent rollout of pre-exposure prophylaxis in a new report, The Star reports. In Goalkeepers 2017, the first in a series of annual reports on progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, they cite Kenya’s use of two of the most effective prevention methods available and say that “other countries can learn a lot from Kenya’s experience.” The country’s VMMC programme reached 71 percent of its national goal for VMMCs performed by 2013 but surpassed its VMMC target for the priority region of Nyanza, where most of the implementation took place (The Star, 14 September 2017).