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State to spend Sh4b to buy sex workers HIV prevention drugs

A group of arrested sex workers shy away from the camera. The programme targets HIV and Aids high-risk groups including commercial sex workers and injecting drug dealers.
 A group of arrested sex workers shy away from the camera. The programme targets HIV and Aids high-risk groups including commercial sex workers and injecting drug dealers.

Kenya: Kenyan taxpayers will have to part with approximately Sh4 billion annually to provide sex workers with a daily HIV and Aids prevention pill.

According to an expert budgetary report prepared for the Government, for every one male or female prostitute, the country will spend about Sh48,667 annually to protect this high risk group from getting infected.

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