People with disabilities and HIV/Aids facing challenges
37-year-old Monica Wambui (right) who is deaf and dumb and living with HIV/Aids speaking through an interpreter, Margaret Karanja. Wambui is now a trainer of trainers who reaches out to the deaf and dump. The 2012 National AIDs Control Council (NACC) report does not indicate the HIV/Aids prevalence among PLWDs, an indication that somehow, this group is ignored. However, statistics indicated that 51 per cent of PLWDs in Kenya who were tested between 2011 and 2013 turned out HIV positive. PHOTO/RACHEL KIBUI.
60-year-old Josephine Leavi has learnt to live with her difficulties taking life as it is.
She however started taking anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) as medical experts advised in order to keep healthy and live positively.
A year after she started taking the ARVs, Leavi lost her eyesight for reasons she does not know.
37-year-old Monica Wambui sits in her house, struggling with what doctors diagnosed as tuberculosis.
Wambui is deaf and dumb.
The 2012 National AIDs Control Council (NACC) report does not indicate the HIV/Aids prevalence among PLWDs, an indication that somehow, this group is ignored.
And according to NASCOP 89 per cent of PWDs are sexually active.
60-year-old Josephine Leavi has learnt to live with her difficulties taking life as it is.
She looks younger than her real age, her stare cannot be associated with blindness, her smile is infectious and her motherly warmth enviable.
