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According to the latest Kenya demographic and health survey report, there are more women than men infected by the HIV/Aids virus. The report puts women's infection rate at 8.7 per cent and that of men at 4.3 per cent. Further, the proportion of women who are HIV-positive has risen with age, from four per cent among 15-19 year olds to 12 per cent in the 25-29 age group. It stabilises among those aged between 25 and 39 years before falling to five per cent in the 45-49 age group.