• According to the Kenya Demographic Health Survey, vital indicators have worsened over the past 10 years.
• Infant mortality has risen since 1993 from 67/1000 live births to 73.7/1000.
• Crude Birth Rate has fallen from 52/1000 to 38/1000.
• Crude Death Rate has fallen from 14 to 11 per 1000.

• Life expectancy has also dropped from 57 years for males in 1989 to less than 50 years in 1999.
• These worsening health status indicators are due to a number of factors.
• poverty, malnutrition and inadequate access to clean water
• resurgence of malaria and tuberculosis
• HIV/AIDS pandemic

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