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HIV patients fight to stay alive after missing crucial medicine

HIV positive persons when they received a donation of foodstuffs they say since COVID-19 started they have had problems receiving drugs. [Wilberforce Okwiri]

Grace Muthoni wearily trudges for ten-minutes to cover the distance between the Canaan Social Hall and her house in Kibra slum, Nairobi, gracefully bearing the discomfort of the sweltering heat and occasional waves of dust that are blasted onto her face by matatus.

She has to contend with the sickening stench of the coal-black sewage in storm drains.

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