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

By Grace Wekesa and John Mondoh | Jun. 16, 2016
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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