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Roadside clinics tackling HIV on highway

The North Star Alliance has been establishing clinics along major transport hubs to provide sex education, HIV counselling and testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. The result has been well-informed truck drivers who share HIV prevention and healthy living messages as they travel, writes NJOKI CHEGE

Every week, Mercy Wambui, 22, visits a certain roadside wellness clinic in Mai Mahiu for free condoms and VCT services.

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