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Surging heroin use threatens Kenya's HIV/AIDS gains

Rashid Hassan Mohammed began using drugs when he was 15, after fleeing an abusive home in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa and joining a street gang that robbed and stole to buy heroin.

He was diagnosed with HIV in 2014 and realised that he needed to give up drugs after years of sharing needles with fellow addicts.

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