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AIDS Costs Kenya Heavily

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

July 27, 2001

According to Kenya's National AIDS Control Council, the nation is losing about $2.6 million daily to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Speaking at the Nairobi Provincial AIDS Control Committee workshop this week, Chair Mohammed Abdullah said that certain practices are spreading the disease and his council is now advocating an attitude change and measures to reduce transmission. Chris Kirubi, a council member, urged the government to end and criminalize female genital mutilation and blamed the practice for helping the spread of HIV/AIDS. Other measures recommended include ending prostitution along Nairobi streets and curbing the influx of child prostitutes. Kenya is one of the sub-Saharan African countries hardest hit by AIDS: 1.1 million Kenyans have died of the disease since 1984, and 2.2 million others are living with HIV.


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