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How ‘medicines first’ HIV policy is changing sex in Kenya

With the new approach, sex workers complain that previously a condom was what you only needed to report to work, but today you prepare as if you are going for war. [Courtesy]

The World Aids Day observed yesterday also marked the fifth year since the US adopted a ‘medicines first’ HIV policy for Kenya and other donor recipient countries.

Titled ‘Dollars to Results’ the policy has led to what doctors are calling over medicalisation of sex through HIV.

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