Kenya's incomplete success story

Kenya has built a reputation as a public-health success with its rapid scale-up of voluntary medical male circumcision, but the story does not end there, writes Diana Wangari in a two-part series in The Star. The first article describes how Kenya’s programme increased the prevalence of male circumcision in the Nyanza region from 45 percent in 2007 to 66 percent in 2012. However, VMMC is not yet a permanent part of Kenya’s health system, and long-term public support for this HIV prevention strategy remains uncertain. The second article examines some of the challenges Kenya faces as it seeks to expand and sustain a successful programme that has relied exclusively on donor funding (The Star, 27 May 2016).