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KENYA: Parliament to address AIDS orphans issue
4 May 2004 (PlusNews ), Kenya's parliament has announced plans to establish a special committee to deal with issues affecting HIV/AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36933

KENYA: Education ministry losing teachers to HIV/AIDS
5 April 2004 (PlusNews ), Kenya loses five of its 235,000 teachers daily as a result of HIV/AIDS, the Ministry of Education has said.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36832

KENYA: US $20 million earmarked for HIV/AIDS
11 March 2004 (PlusNews ), Kenya's National AIDS Control Council (NACC) has set aside close to US $20 million for community-based organisations (CBOs) to provide anti-AIDS drugs in remote parts of the country.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36731

KENYA: New funding plan for AIDS organisations
1 March 2004 (PlusNews ), Kenya's National AIDS Control Council (NACC) has announced that it will be funding community-based HIV/AIDS programmes directly, rather than working through the Ministry of Health.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36665

KENYA: Thousands of women to discuss HIV/AIDS
20 February 2004 (PlusNews ), Some 4,000 women are expected to meet on Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, for their first-ever conference on HIV/AIDS, health minister Charity Ngilu announced.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36645

KENYA: Focus on primary schools coping with HIV-positive pupils
16 February 2004 (PlusNews ), Mary Waweru, a kindergarten teacher in Nairobi's sprawling Kawangware slums, has noticed that some of her pupils are increasingly absent from school due to ill health. Some of the young children have already been orphaned, being supported by charity organisations.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36619

KENYA: Free anti-AIDS drugs for thousands in 2005
16 February 2004 (PlusNews ), About 140,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya will receive free anti-AIDS treatment by 2005, the US deputy ambassador to Kenya, Leslie Rowe, has said.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36621

KENYA: Bridging the reproductive health gap for girls in Nairobi slums
14 January 2004 (PlusNews ), For many young women in Nairobi's crowded Kibera slum, life is fraught with danger in addition to the hardship they share with other residents of one of Africa's poorest neighbourhoods. They live in constant fear of violence, rape, sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS, unequal access to education, and excessive domestic responsibilities.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36507

KENYA: Caution sounded over Kenyan AIDS study
14 January 2004 (PlusNews ), The UN's frontline HIV/AIDS agency has sounded caution over a Kenyan study suggesting that the country's AIDS rates may be lower than was previously thought.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36508

KENYA: Confusion over HIV prevalence rates
13 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Findings from a government survey released last week showed that Kenya may have a lower HIV prevalence rate than was previously thought, but activists warned the situation on the ground had not changed.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36502

KENYA: HIV/AIDS rates "overestimated" - survey
12 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Preliminary findings from the latest Kenya Demographic and Health Survey suggest that Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic may have been "grossly overestimated".
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36498

KENYA: Court victory for HIV-positive scholars
9 January 2004 (PlusNews ), A Kenyan High Court judge on Friday ruled that more than 70 HIV-positive orphans be integrated into public schools by the end of the school year.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36494

KENYA: HIV/AIDS rates lower than previously thought
8 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Preliminary findings of a government survey released on Thursday show that Kenya may have a lower HIV/AIDS prevalence rate than was previously thought.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36488

KENYA: Deal struck for rejected HIV-positive pupils
8 January 2004 (PlusNews ), A day after it sued the government for discrimination, a Kenyan orphanage for HIV-positive children said on Thursday it had struck a deal with authorities to allow the children access to public schools.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36490

KENYA: Government sued over AIDS discrimination in schools
7 January 2004 (PlusNews ), The Kenyan government has been sued over discriminatory practices at some of its public schools that refuse to admit HIV-positive orphans.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36485

KENYA: AIDS partnership brings new testing centres
5 January 2004 (PlusNews ), Kenya could soon see the development of 120 new HIV/AIDS voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) facilities, a local newspaper, The East African Standard, has reported.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36475

KENYA: Ban all AIDS NGOs - health minister
10 December 2003 (PlusNews ), Kenyan Health Minister Charity Ngilu has proposed a ban on all HIV/AIDS NGOs after reports of corruption in some of the organisations.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36436

KENYA: Release of latest HIV/AIDS statistics urged
11 November 2003 (PlusNews ), Kenya's First Lady Lucy Kibaki has called for the release of the most up to date figures on HIV/AIDS-related deaths.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36316

KENYA: HIV/AIDS covered by new health scheme
29 October 2003 (PlusNews ), People living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya could soon benefit from the country's new National Social Health Insurance Fund (NSHIF), the ministry of health announced.
https://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=36276

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