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Category : HIV/AIDS
Spouses Remain At Greatest Risk Of Contracting Virus Reject Newspaper, Pg. 2
Wednesday, 16 Mar 2011

Mwingi central district officer Ms Stella Gichamba points out that due to high infidelity among spouses, HIV/AIDS is spreading fast among married partners more than among commercial sex workers.

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Vulgar Music and HIV Infection Reject Newspaper, Pg. 1
Wednesday, 16 Mar 2011

Studies conducted by an organization known as Support for Addictions Prevention and Treatment in Africa find there is a direct correlation between vulgar music, drug addiction and HIV infection. SAPTA’s executive director William Sinkele says the national AIDS control council should include

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Radio Station Crusades for Rights of Women among Maa Community Kenya Today, Pg. 10
Tuesday, 15 Mar 2011

Women living in fringe areas, mostly those occupied by pastoralist communities face systematic injustices, and it’s for that reason that Lois Toiwon who is the Samburu Women Initiative for Development coordinator decided to establish together with others a community radio Serian FM, to rely

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Health Facility Changing Lives of AIDS, Cancer Patients The People, Pg. 15
Tuesday, 15 Mar 2011

Unknown to many people, at the heart of the Kenyatta National Hospital lies the Nairobi hospice, an outpatient facility that takes care of people having chronic diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and cancer. The health facility improves the quality of life of patients and families through preventing and

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Giving HIV Orphans a Head Start in Life The People, Pg. 14
Tuesday, 15 Mar 2011

Orphaned at a tender age of 14, Lucy Wambui now 27 a single mother of three children has received a second chance in life through the Mangu Intergrated Community Program in partnership with HelpAge.  With the programme project officer Erastus Maina saying their main goal is to strengthen hou

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Thank God they are Pulling HIV/AIDS off the Pedestal Daily Nation, DN2, Pg. 4
Monday, 14 Mar 2011

Waga Odongo, in his column opines that while HIV is a risky disease, too much attention is being focused on it at the expense of other diseases, adding that he is encouraged to read that it is going to lose its special status and be treated like other normal chronic diseases. He concludes by stat

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In Turkana, Condoms are Washed and Re-Used Sunday Express, Pg. 17
Sunday, 13 Mar 2011

In a small Turkana village in the vast Isiolo county, they know that a condom is used for the prevention of the spread of HIV and AIDS  but the last time they saw a condom was three months ago, and what they have resorted to is to re-use the condoms for as many times as possible. Dr Kirigia,

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Oxen to make money for Mwingi HIV Victim The Star, Pg. 8
Saturday, 12 Mar 2011

Through the Mwingi home care initiative, families of people living with HIV/AIDS and orphans and vulnerable children has received bullocks from the Kitui Catholic Diocese to use them to plough farms for a fee, as an income generating initiative.

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