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Nurse starts drive after patient commits suicide

Kakamega, Kenya: After an HIV patient at a health facility she was attached to in Western Kenya yielded to societal stigma and committed suicide, 56-year-old Margaret Rupia vowed to use all her means to stop a similar occurrence.

Having worked for 29 years as a nurse since she joined the profession at Muhoroni health centre in 1985, she knew there were many HIV positive patients who were suffering in silence.

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