{"id":23727,"date":"2011-12-29T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/"},"modified":"2011-12-29T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:48:07","slug":"kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya recalls &#8216;faulty&#8217; HIV kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>29 December 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>17:48 GMT<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"Blood drawn from a Kenyan to determine his HIV status (December 2000)\" \/><span>There has been a sharp increase in the number of Kenyans who go for HIV tests<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Kenya has recalled one million HIV testing kits because of fears about their accuracy, a health official has said.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO had raised an alert about the kit after finding half the test results could be wrong, said Shahnaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>But there was no reason to panic as the South Korean-manufactured kit was one of several used to diagnose the HIV status of people, Dr Sharif said.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya, like most of Africa, is trying to contain the HIV\/Aids pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>International aids charity Avert says HIV testing has increased sharply in the past decade in the East African state, following a government-backed campaign to create more awareness about the illness.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, Kenya had only three voluntary testing and counselling sites, but the number had risen to nearly 1,000 by 2007, it says.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Tie-breaker test&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr Sharif, Kenya&#8217;s director of Public Health and Sanitation, told the BBC&#8217;s Focus on Africa programme that the Standard Diagnostic Bioline (SDB) kit, manufactured by a South Korean company, had wrongly diagnosed people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The discrepancy rate was about 50% and the WHO [World Health Organisation] has asked all countries to put on hold use of Bioline,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About 50% of positives may have been reported as negative and 50% of negatives as positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The WHO had detected the unreliability of SDB, which was widely used by countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Dr Sharif said.<\/p>\n<p>But Kenyans should not be alarmed because the SDB test is one of three tests that health officials carry out on people to make sure their HIV status is correctly diagnosed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are really worried and asking if it is going to affect them. The answer is no,&#8221; Dr Sharif said, adding that a &#8220;tie-breaker&#8221; test was normally conducted if there were conflicting results.<\/p>\n<p>More than one million Kenyans are HIV-positive.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 December 2011 Last updated at 17:48 GMT There has been a sharp increase in the number of Kenyans who go for HIV tests Kenya has recalled one million HIV testing kits because of fears about their accuracy, a health official has said. The WHO had raised an alert about the kit after finding half the test results could be wrong, said Shahnaz Sharif<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya recalls &#039;faulty&#039; HIV kits - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya recalls &#039;faulty&#039; HIV kits - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"29 December 2011 Last updated at 17:48 GMT There has been a sharp increase in the number of Kenyans who go for HIV tests Kenya has recalled one million HIV testing kits because of fears about their accuracy, a health official has said. The WHO had raised an alert about the kit after finding half the test results could be wrong, said Shahnaz Sharif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Kenya recalls &#8216;faulty&#8217; HIV kits\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-12-29T17:48:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/\"},\"wordCount\":324,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/\",\"name\":\"Kenya recalls 'faulty' HIV kits - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-12-29T17:48:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kenya recalls 'faulty' HIV kits - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Kenya recalls 'faulty' HIV kits - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"29 December 2011 Last updated at 17:48 GMT There has been a sharp increase in the number of Kenyans who go for HIV tests Kenya has recalled one million HIV testing kits because of fears about their accuracy, a health official has said. The WHO had raised an alert about the kit after finding half the test results could be wrong, said Shahnaz Sharif","twitter_image":"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Kenya recalls &#8216;faulty&#8217; HIV kits","datePublished":"2011-12-29T17:48:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/"},"wordCount":324,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/","name":"Kenya recalls 'faulty' HIV kits - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg","datePublished":"2011-12-29T17:48:07+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/29\/kenya-recalls-faulty-hiv-kits\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/57613000\/jpg\/_57613661_blo.jpg"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}