"); NewWindow.document.close(); return false; }

AIDS and TB drugs made freely available to prisoners
Wednesday 25 May 2005
Home About PlusNews Country Profiles News Briefs Special Reports Subscribe Archive IRINnews
Search    

Regions
Africa
East Africa
Great Lakes
Horn of Africa
Southern Africa
West Africa
RSSyndication
RSS - News Briefs

Features
PlusNews E-mail Subscription
 

KENYA: AIDS and TB drugs made freely available to prisoners


[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]


JOHANNESBURG, 23 May (PLUSNEWS) - Prison authorities at western Kenya's Kodiaga Prison have teamed up with the US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) to make anti-AIDS and tuberculosis treatments freely available to inmates.

Kenya's East African Standard newspaper quoted CDC's country director for Kenya, Dr Kevin De Cock, as saying: "We realised that TB and HIV/AIDS were the leading causes of preventable deaths among prisoners."

According to De Cock, this is to be a pilot project that could eventually include all the country's correctional institutions.

He lauded the success of officials in highlighting the importance of AIDS and TB control in prisons.

[ENDS]

MORE NEWS BRIEFS

 
Recent KENYA Reports
Govt promises expansion of free ARVs,  4/May/05
Health centre to treat HIV/AIDS patients inaugurated,  28/Apr/05
New tax jeopardises treatment access,  10/Feb/05
Fight against HIV/AIDS bearing fruit, but challenges remain,  18/Jan/05
HIV/AIDS prevalence down to seven percent, says gov't,  1/Dec/04
Links
Le portail d'informations générales de la Côte d’Ivoire
Sida Info Services
Le Fonds mondial de lutte contre le SIDA, la tuberculose et le paludisme
Le Réseau Afrique 2000
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria

PlusNews does not take responsibility for info in links supplied.

[Back] [Home Page]

Click here to send any feedback, comments or questions you have about PlusNews Website or if you prefer you can send an Email to Webmaster

Copyright © IRIN 2005
The material contained on www.PlusNews.org comes to you via IRIN, a UN humanitarian news and information service, but may not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies.
All PlusNews material may be reposted or reprinted free-of-charge; refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use. IRIN is a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.