KENYA: Winning against HIV stigma behind bars

NAIROBI Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - HIV-positive prisoners in Kenya not only suffer isolation from friends and family, but also within the prison walls. "Fellow prisoners and warders treat us so uncaringly - they stigmatise us," said Collins Kiwinda*, a prisoner serving time for robbery with violence at Athi River Prison in the capital, Nairobi. "Our relatives never come to see us and find out how we are faring." Kiwinda is married, but assumes that his wife has left him - she has not...