Nairobi — Inmates at Kodiaga Prison will now get free anti-retrovirals and tuberculosis drugs at the new health facility at the institution.

The facility was constructed through a partnership between the Centres for Disease Control, Kenya Prisons and medical authorities. A new X-Ray unit was also installed at a cost of Sh3 million.

CDC Country Director Dr Kevin De Cock said it was a pilot project targeting the country's prisons.

He said three years ago, CDC, National Leprosy and Tuberculosis control programme and Kenya Prisons Services jointly identified control of TB in the prisons as a national priority.

"We realised that TB and HIV/Aids were the leading causes of preventable deaths among prisoners," he said.