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Kenya Voluntary HIV Testing Campaign Launched

From Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

November 24, 2009

A voluntary HIV testing campaign launched in Kenya "has already met public resistance," according to the BBC. The campaign involves health workers "knock[ing] on as many doors as they can over the next three weeks, hoping to reach one million people." The BBC reports that HIV-positive Kenyans "carry a heavy social burden and even taking a test is seen as a sign of sexual promiscuity. But Minister of Public Health Beth Mugo says too many Kenyans are dying not because they have AIDS but because they simply do not know they are HIV-positive and therefore are not getting treatment" (Greste, 11/ 23).

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