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Kenya is making improvements in fighting HIV/AIDS but the lives of HIV positive children are not improving. "Cleansing rapes" where HIV positive men rape young virgins to rid themselves of the virus is on the rise and children who are HIV positive are abandoned at hospitals.
This piece focuses on a pediatric center and orphanage in Eldoret that sees some of the tragic results of HIV/AIDS on its youngest victims.
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Kenya is making improvements in fighting HIV/AIDS but the lives of HIV positive children are not improving. "Cleansing rapes" where HIV positive men rape young virgins to rid themselves of the virus is on the rise and children who are HIV positive are abandoned at hospitals. This piece focuses on a pediatric center and orphanage in Eldoret that sees some of the tragic results of HIV/AIDS on its youngest victims.
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Of the 4.3 million new cases of HIV in 2006, 65 percent are in Sub-Saharan Africa. The recently released United Nations-World Health Organization report on AIDS says the heaviest burden falls on the women and children in those countries. Barbara Lewis reports from Kenya on the youngest victims of the continuing AIDS epidemic.
Suggested tag: Barbara Lewis is the host of "Sound Medicine" on Indiana's NPR stations.
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