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HIV/AIDS and STDs Control   
HIV/AIDS was declared a national disaster, and the National AIDS Control Council 
(NACC) was set up in the Office of the President in 1999.  The Kenya National 
HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan 2000-2005 has been approved by the parliament and the 
HIVAIDS Control Unit was established under the PPHS.  Thereafter, a NASCOP that 
unifies HIV/AIDS, STD, TB, and leprosy diseases was drawn up.    Accordingly, the 
units in charge of each disease were also unified, and the unified unit itself is called 
NASCOP.   
The concrete objectives of NASCOP are a DOTS strategy for the treatment of TB 
cases, blood safety, Prevent Mother and Child Transmission (PCMT), expansion of 
Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT), anti-retrovirus therapy (ARV) for 
opportunistic infections and home-based care and abolition of discrimination against 
HIV/AIDS and leprosy.