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Hope for HIV-positive children in Kitui as treatment bears fruit

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USAID 4Better Project Manager Kelvin Wambugu talks to one of the teenagers who has been living with HIV since he was born. [Philip Muasya, Standard]

When he was two years old, Elvis nearly lost his life as he would be constantly sick and kept losing weight.

His mother bought over-the-counter drugs and severally took him to a local dispensary but nothing seemed to work.

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