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Kenyan film highlights truth about HIVAids and gender-based violence

Radio personality Adelle Onyango. (Courtesy)

"I already knew. I just didn't know how to tell you," Mercy solemnly tells her counsellor in the short film by the same name.

In that dialogue, Mercy, played by Tana Gachoka is talking about how she contracted HIV/Aids; through a rape incident when she was 15.

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