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Alarm as Aids wipes teens out

Kenya: President Uhuru Kenyatta has launched a campaign to scale up the fight against HIV and Aids among adolescents as  infections and deaths among this group record a dramatic increase.

Worrying statistics show that one adolescent is infected with HIV every two minutes, with almost a third of new infections of HIV in Kenya occurring among adolescents.

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