270,000 Take Part in Voluntary Male Circumcision The People, Pg. 2
Monday, 22 Aug 2011

Nyanza provincial task force on male circumcision reveals that more than 270,000 men have been circumcised in Nyanza province since November 2008. According to Nyanza director of public health and sanitation Nyanza has led the way in conducting a clinical trial of male circumcision for HIV preven

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Shocking Figures of Babies Living with HIV Virus The People, Pg. 14
Saturday, 20 Aug 2011

Chief executive of the Kenya Treatment Access Movement (KETAM) says only 46,000 of the 117,000 children living with HIV have access to anti-retroviral drugs, with the situation further complicated by the dwindling donor funding.

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Twelve Children, One Tent, Many More on the Way The People, Pg. 45
Saturday, 20 Aug 2011

According to the acting director of Medicines Sans Frontier, Dagahaey refugee hospital an average of six children are born per day at the hospital which serves a population of around 120,000, bearing in mind that most households at the refugee camp give birth to large number of children, and with

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Domestic Abuse: A Risk Factor for HIV Transmission Saturday Nation, Magazine, Pg. 6
Saturday, 20 Aug 2011

Recent studies from Tanzania, Rwanda and South Africa indicate that women who have experienced violence are up to three times more likely to contract HIV than those who have not, as violence makes women vulnerable because most of them fear the man’s wrath, and the inaction to ask for protec

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In Sickness and in Health Daily Nation, Living Magazine - August 17, 2011, Pg. 4
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2011

Confusion and fear of rejection by their spouses characterize the lives of discordant couples when they discover they are living with the virus. 

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Discordant Couple Learns To Love Again The Standard, Pg.3
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2011

A couple learns to love again when one partner is diagnosed to be living with the virus, but after an emotional struggle and counseling, their relationship improve as they find ways of living together in harmony.

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Simple Plan to End Malaria Dominance The Standard, Pg. 18
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2011

Schools, villages and prisons in Kenya, particularly in Nyanza, Rift Valley, Nairobi, Eastern and Western province have started growing Artemisia Annua, a Chinese indigenous plant that treats malaria, skin diseases and Dysmenorrhoea. Mary Okumu , school principle says that since starting

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Village Brothels Thriving on Underage Girls The Standard, Underworld Magazine, Pg. 4
Wednesday, 17 Aug 2011

Children Welfare Department and rights activists are raising the red flag over sexual exploitation of underage girls with a syndicate involving middle age women seeing the rise in cases of child prostitution, defilement, early marriages and sexual assault at an alarming level in Migori, Homa Bay

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