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AIDS in Kenya: Hunger's Tragic Link to HIV

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In Kenya's western Suba District, AIDS has ravaged fishing communities up and down Lake Victoria. Women have been hardest hit, and an entire generation of children has been orphaned.

The first of a two-part report details why women trade sex for food, and how HIV touches all aspects of life -- and also how women shunned for their illness are finding support amongst themselves.

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