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Sorrow as girl who moved First Lady Margaret Kenyatta to tears succumbs to disease

Francisca Achieng during the narration of the poem entitled HIV before First Lady at Our Lady of Grace and Compassion in Busia last Thursday. (PHOTO: JOHN MONDO/ STANDARD)

A teenager who moved First Lady Margaret Kenyatta to tears with her gripping poem about living with HIV/AIDS has died.

Eighteen-year-old Francisca Achieng' succumbed to the virus one week after her performance when Mrs Kenyatta visited Busia County to deliver a mobile clinic.

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