Stories by The KC team

KC Pauline Ngunjiri on the issues facing St. Kitts and Nevis as direct donor funding for the islands’ HIV response continues to shrink. Continue reading  >

KC Sidi Sarro returns to visit Elizabeth, a 32-year-old from Kenya’s Kawangware slum who was close to death with TB six-months-ago Continue reading  >

As the 16th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa draws to a close today, KC Chineduari from Zambia gives her personal reflections http://www.keycorrespondents.org/2011/12/08/icasa-2011-my-personal-reflections/ Continue reading  >

Uganda has been touted as an AIDS success story but recent worrying trends suggest Uganda is losing its global AIDS response leadership. Continue reading  >

With the rapid, large influx of people at refugee camps in both Kenya and Ethiopia, we must start thinking about other, long term health issues, as well as the current crisis. We need to start planning for what the refugees may face health wise in the long term, argues KC Kundal D Patel. Continue reading  >

Over a hundred years into the current fight against tuberculosis (TB), it remains one of the world’s most critical medical and public health challenges. Not only has the disease steadily caused a great deal of illness and death over the years, tackling it has become more complex and difficult, writes Key Correspondent Prakash Tyagi Continue reading  >

KC Henry Zakumumpa on Ugandan perspectives on the debate surrounding HIV treatment versus HIV prevention. Continue reading  >

What has June’s UN High Level Meeting on AIDS/HIV actually achieved? Javier Hourcade Bellocq gives his view. Continue reading  >

HIV stigma can destroy lives, more so than the infection itself. An orphanage in Lopburi province, Thailand has addressed this global problem and proves that, without stigma, children with HIV can have amazing lives, writes KC Kunald Patel. Continue reading  >

Maternal mortality is still is a major problem in many developing countries, especially in sub Sahara Africa. The story of Naomi Ondeng, a Kenyan women who lost her child during delivery then faced stigma after being left incontinent by the labour, shows the impact poor maternal care can have on women’s lives. Continue reading  >