Aids vaccine by KEMRI gives hope

Professor Aggrey Omu Anzala, Founding member of Kenya Aids Vaccine Initiative (KAVI) (right) and Research scientist Robert Lang'at with some of their vials in the past. PHOTO: FILE

The ravages of HIV and Aids on society are there for all to see. Women, particularly, bear the brunt when they have to raise families on meagre resources and stigma in cases where husbands succumb to Aids.

Men on the other hand have been unable to cope with family pressures after the demise of their wives even as many orphans are consigned to difficult lives following the deaths of their parents. The toll of Aids on the economy and the medical sector cannot be gainsaid.