HIV+ mothers enlisted as mentors in campaign

Disclosure that, Mike says, could have saved their family a world of hurt.

There are currently 1.6 million Kenyans living with the HIV virus according to the National AIDS and STI Control Programme (NASCOP) with 58 percent of them being women.

“And by 2015,” Wangeci says, “we want beyond zero transmission of HIV from mother to child.”

There are currently 190,000 children between the ages of 0 and 14 living with the HIV virus with 13,000 new infections in 2013.

In the effort to bring this number down to zero, M2M plans to – in 2015 alone – grow its mentor mother programme from the 30 public health facilities it currently operates in to 500.

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OLIVE BURROWS

With a decade of storytelling under her belt, Olive Burrows has been with Capital FM for the last four years and perhaps most notably interviewed US President Barack Obama. Committed to asking the hard questions and telling the story in the most engaging way possible, she has also interviewed Melinda Gates, a UK Minister and severally had the opportunity to sit across from President Uhuru Kenyatta and address the pressing issues of the day. Other notables she has had occasion to seek answers from are UN Secretary General António Guterres and John Kerry in his time as US Secretary of State.

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