Kenyan Officials Urged to Waive Taxes on Goods for HIV-Positive People
The Action for Empowerment Organization—a Christian child-advocacy group—asked government officials in Kenya yesterday, December 18, to waive taxes on goods brought into the country for people living with HIV, the Daily Nation reports (nationmedia.com, 12/18).
Sam Tushabe, the group’s international coordinator, spoke yesterday at the opening of the Action for Empowerment Organization’s Kenya office, which is located in the industrial town of Webuye.
The Daily Nation reports that taxing drugs, clothes and food for children and families living with or affected by HIV/AIDS further endangers the country’s most vulnerable populations.
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Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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