Agostinah receives her medication from a clinic run by the Kenyan-American organization CFK Africa, which serves approximately 1,400 HIV and AIDS patients.
The clinic receives its medicines from the Kenyan government – which in turn procures a large portion of its HIV medicines with US support. The clinic has 35 employees.
About 1.4 million of Kenya’s 55 million people are living with HIV. About 40 percent of Kenya’s HIV drugs and supplies have come from the United States through the country’s emergency AIDS relief program, Pepfar.
Now the future of Agostinah’s care and that of countless others is uncertain. It has been many long months.
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If US aid stops, CFK will likely have to stop providing HIV, AIDS and tuberculosis treatment at its clinic, Okoro estimates. He points out that the clients are vulnerable people. According to Okoro, people in Kibera earn an average of two to three dollars a day.
For patients, uncertainty is poison.
“People are worried. They are afraid of the disease progressing and dying. Customers are asking what will happen if the US funding runs out,” says CFK coordinator Eddah Ogogo.
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