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Category : HIV/AIDS
34m Living With HIV After Treatment Boost Daily Nation, Pg. 22
Tuesday, 22 Nov 2011

The United Nations says the significant expansion in access to treatment has helped avert an estimated 700,000 AIDS related deaths, with Michel Sidibe, the executive director of UNAIDS saying they have demonstrated that putting people early on treatment you reduce the number of new infections.

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State Told to Finance War on Malaria, HIV The Standard, Pg. 22
Tuesday, 22 Nov 2011

UNITAID, an international organization involved in the purchase of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis drugs says, experience has shown that every country is capable of funding the programme if they have infrastructure and systems.

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Kenya Goes Digital on HIV Medical Records Storage The Standard, My Health, Pg. 6
Tuesday, 22 Nov 2011

Kenya has embarked on a five year process to digitize treatment records of persons living with HIV and AIDS, which will see medical histories of 1.5 million people living with HIV and AIDS installed in the computer system thereby marking an end to paper records.

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500,000 Living With HIV/AIDS in Region Kenya Today, Pg. 6
Monday, 21 Nov 2011

National AIDS Control Council Nyanza field officer says that about 500,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS in Nyanza, the highest prevalence rate in the country.

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Pontiff’s Roadmap Says AIDS an Ethical Problem Daily Nation, Pg. 39
Sunday, 20 Nov 2011

Pope Benedict XVI on his African tour labels AIDS is an ethical problem, adding that changes in behavior are required in response to the disease which include sexual abstinence and rejection of promiscuity.

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Boats to Abolish Sex-For-Fish Trade The Star, Pg. 9
Saturday, 19 Nov 2011

Women groups in Kano, Kisumu County have benefitted from boats from the US Peace Corps in collaboration with VIRED International under the ‘no sex for fish’ initiative which aims to empower women and to help stop the sex for fish trade.

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Fabulous Approach to Sex Matters The Standard, Pg. 20
Friday, 18 Nov 2011

The miss fabulous beauty pageant, is a beauty pageant with a different approach as compared to other conventional beauty pageant as  it is a community driven competition committed to addressing health and education, with the winner during her reign promoting HIV and AIDS awareness.

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Patents Versus Right to Health: Which Will Kenya Choose? The Standard, Pg. 15
Friday, 18 Nov 2011

Medecins Sans Frontier, director of policy and advocacy says that for Kenya to protects its people right to health, it should review and reform all laws, policies or trade agreements that may reverse or threaten the gains made in accordance to the Doha declaration, adding that protection of quali

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