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Category : HIV/AIDS
NACC Wants AIDS Trust Fund Established The Star, Pg. 12
Friday, 28 Oct 2011

The National AIDS Control Council (NACC) warns against over reliance of funds from foreign donors, and is calling for the establishment of a local trust fund to which domestic donations can be made to help fund HIV/AIDS related programmes, adding that only 15 per cent of the funding for HIV/AIDS

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Kenyan Firm Win Entry into Global Drug Market Business Daily, Pg. 1
Friday, 28 Oct 2011

Universal Corporation, a Kenyan pharmaceutical company has won World Health Organization (WHO) certification for one of its drugs; Lamozid, an anti-retroviral drug. The drug was pre-qualified and included in a list of 255 drugs approved by the Global Fund. 

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HIV Stigma Erodes Gains Made in War on the Disease The People, Pg. 14
Wednesday, 26 Oct 2011

Many people in Kenya living with HIV have experienced stigma and discrimination including prejudice, abuses and mistreatment both at home and at the workplace, with the Kenya demographic Health Survey 2009, noting that only 32.9 per cent of respondents who had heard of AIDS expressing acceptance

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PM Criticized For Supporting Gays Daily Nation, Pg. 24
Wednesday, 26 Oct 2011

Zimbabwean Prime Minister in an interview says that gay rights are human rights and wants their rights enshrined in the country’s new constitution amid opposition from the president’s Zanu PF party.

 

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Kenya, EU Deal May Affect Generic ARVs But Seen as Necessary to Stem Counterfeits Kenya Today, Pg. 16
Monday, 24 Oct 2011

The passing of the Anti Counterfeit Law in Kenya, aimed at protecting the country from losing billions in revenue and jobs, is likely to block the importation of HIV/AIDS generic drugs in the country. This is according to experts appointed by the African Commission on Human and People Rights, wit

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Community Where HIV Patients are treated as Outcasts The People, Pg. 46
Saturday, 22 Oct 2011

In this era where people are sensitized on HIV/AIDS issues, people living with HIV continue to suffer stigma and discrimination, with the situation being more pronounced in Dadaab refugee camp largely inhibited by the Somali community. However a non-governmental organization, the African Developm

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Intimacy in the Face Of HIV and AIDS The People, Pg. 33
Saturday, 22 Oct 2011

People living with HIV enjoy sex and fall in love with other people. The article describes how to protect oneself, talking it out with the doctor, informing your sex partner and protecting your partner as essential in order to go about a normal intimate life positively.

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We Can’t Keep Preaching the Gospel of ‘Sex without Consequences’ and Escape Daily Nation, Pg. 13
Thursday, 20 Oct 2011

Francis Ayieko, the editor of a monthly Christian newspaper opines that one of the tragedies of our times is the way our cultures always present sex as fun without consequences.

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