The KAWI Photo Gallery: More Pictures "The people must at least be given hope. It is incumbent upon myself and my fellow leaders to turn this suffering into history rather than destiny," - President Moi. Homepage About Us News on HIV/AIDS The Team AIDS Hotline The Other War ARV Treatment

Ms Asunta Wagura, leader of the Kenya Network of Women with AIDS (KENWA) Prof Martin Markowitz and KAWI visiting the Kenya Network of Women with AIDS (KENWA) situated in Mathare slums Residents of Soweto slums in Nairobi's Eastlands area go about their business Guests at an Aids meeting hosted by KAWI. Children in a Kenyan school. Kenya has the third highest number of Aids orphans worldwide.

A girl in the sprawling Mathare slums President Moi addressing the UN General Assembly Session on AIDS (UNGASS) in New York City: He termed the HIV/AIDS pandemic "a disaster unlike any previously experienced". The poverty-stricken neighbourhood of Nairobi's Kibera area, the largest slum area in Africa From Left, Ed Karanja, a Director of KAWI, with Prof Martin Markowitz and Deputy British  High Commisioner, Edward Clay. Dr Amu Anzala of KAWI, and other facilitators during a media training session at the KAWI offices.

With slum-dwellers being the most affected by the HIV/AIDS scourge in Kenya, there is a great need for comprehensive programmes to create awareness among this threatened majority. KAWI is presently engaged in repackaging and delivering information on HIV/AIDS in a language relevant to those living below the poverty line.

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