A study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that about 1.3 million Kenyans living with HIV/AIDS might have been wrongly diagnosed.
This was after it was discovered that the most dominant HIV/AIDS test kits used in Kenya do not meet crucial thresholds set by the WHO.
The evaluation followed an increase in cases of HIV misdiagnosis by up to 10.5 percent.
Blood samples were collected from Kenyan clinics and tested in a Belgium laboratory in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and an International Charity Group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
The final report revealed that out of the seven kits prequalified by WHO, only one met the recommended threshold.
"Individuals kits performed more poorly than WHO evaluation with only one test (STAT PACK) meeting the recommended thresholds," the report read.
Study leader Cara S. Kosak of MSF affirmed that there were indeed cases of misdiagnosis.
Recently WHO blamed misdiagnosis on human error but after the evaluation, it emerged that the kits were largely to blame.
