KENYA: Camp conditions harsh for HIV-positive displaced people

KENYA: Camp conditions harsh for HIV-positive displaced people

Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

IDPs have insufficient food, soap and warm clothing in the camps

NAKURU, 29 April 2008 (PlusNews) - Harsh living conditions and the onset of the cold rainy season in Kenya are making it increasingly difficult for HIV-positive people displaced in the recent post-election violence [...]

KENYA: ARV programmes slowly recovering from post-election crisis

KENYA: ARV programmes slowly recovering from post-election crisis

Photo: Manoocher DEGHATI/IRIN

AMPATH has opened a satellite centre in the Nakuru Showground IDP camp where patients can receive ARVs

ELDORET, 28 April 2008 (PlusNews) - Thousands of Kenyans who dropped out of HIV treatment programmes in January as a result of the country’s post-election violence are [...]

KENYA: Sexual violence continues in IDP camps

KENYA: Sexual violence continues in IDP camps
NAKURU, 4 March 2008 (PlusNews) - Residents in a camp for displaced persons in Nakuru, in Rift Valley Province, western Kenya, were deeply shocked when a gang of men attacked and sexually assaulted five boys, but the health officials dealing with sexual violence during the recent political upheaval [...]

KENYA: Displacement raises risk of drug-resistant TB

KENYA: Displacement raises risk of drug-resistant [...]