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Current Feed ContentKENYA: Slow response to high HIV rates in prisonsThe problem of HIV in Kenya's prisons - where prevalence is about twice the national average - will remain unsolved as long as homosexuality is illegal, and prevention efforts remain out of reach, experts have warned. "We know homosexuality exists in the prisons, but our hands are tied because of the illegal nature of sodomy under our laws," Mary Chepkong'a, head of the Kenya Prisons Service AIDS Control Unit, told IRIN/PlusNews. "Because of the law, we cannot provide them with condoms to... |