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Kenyan women confess they did not swallow HIV prevention pill

Kenyan women who used to take a daily HIV prevention pill have admitted to have lied to researchers that they swallowed all the tablets.

More than 700 women in Bondo, Siaya county, and almost a similar number in Pretoria, South Africa, had been put on the pill, but it was not seen to reduce the rate of HIV infection as expected. Consequently the study was stopped.

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