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People living with HIV who struggle to take daily medication and maintain an undetectable viral load may soon have a far more manageable option: a monthly injection. A major clinical trial has now proven this long-acting regimen to be significantly more effective than the daily pill.

#HealthyNation https://nation.africa/kenya/health/monthly-hiv-injections-cuts-treatment-failure-in-half-offering-hope-for-126-000-kenyans-5547634
If there is one point of consensus, it is that education is foundational to gender equality and women’s empowerment. It is in this regard that the situation pertaining in Lesotho, that women are the most educated group in the country, yet they face the highest unemployment rates, is a concern.

#NationGender https://nation.africa/kenya/news/gender/why-lesotho-s-most-educated-women-still-face-the-highest-unemployment-rates--5546634
The family of Erick Otieno has accused police of concealing CCTV footage and other evidence from them, which it says could shed light on how the 19-year-old boda boda rider died shortly after being released from Muthaiga Police Station.

Lawyers and civil society groups on Wednesday accused the police of withholding key evidence that could establish what transpired between Otieno's arrest on Saturday and his death on Sunday night while being rushed to Mama Margaret Uhuru Hospital.

Read more: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/muthaiga-police-family-demands-cctv-hospital-records-for-teen-death-probe--5548298#story
SENATE CHANGES: Taita Taveta Senator Johnes Mwaruma and Nominated Senator Beth Syengo elected chair and vice chair of County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee, respectively; they replace Godfrey Osostsi (Vihiga) and Eddy Oketch (Migori).
KENYATTA AVENUE partially blocked as mothers protest abductions and disappearances of young men from Mathare, Huruma and Kiamaiko.
SENATE CHANGES: Nandi Senator Samson Cherargei returns as vice chair of County Public Accounts Committee; replaces Johnes Mwaruma (Taita Taveta), who has moved to chair CPIC.
Fresh appointments to key state advisory bodies reignite questions over President William Ruto's commitment to the two-thirds gender rule.
Despite creating the Office of the Women's Rights Adviser, critics say women remain underrepresented in influential government positions. #NationGender https://nation.africa/kenya/news/gender/country-with-a-women-s-rights-adviser-but-no-female-at-the-table-shaping-its-post-2030-future-5547532
Growing up, Prof Kenneth Ngure always wanted to be a scientist. His interest in HIV research was piqued during high school. He recalls being at home for the holidays when a television news item caught his attention, a report on an unproven drug that was being touted at the time as a cure for HIV. Years later, he learned that this drug was merely a compound with antiviral activity, not an actual cure. Still, that brief news segment made him realize exactly what he wanted to do after high school. #HealthyNation http://nation.africa/kenya/health/-the-boy-who-wanted-a-cure-how-kenyan-scientist-became-a-global-hiv-leader-5547466
A trader at Burma Market noticed them first. Birds that did not belong; loud, dark, unfamiliar, working the stalls the way pigeons work a park bench. He chased them off and did not think much more of them. Then someone took a photograph, and that photograph landed on the desks of conservationists who had been dreading this exact moment for years. The Indian House Crow, one of the most destructive invasive birds anywhere in the world, has reached Nairobi. #Earthwise https://nation.africa/kenya/climate/invasive-indian-house-crows-land-in-nairobi--5548730
When you walk through many of Nairobi's residential neighbourhoods, it is hard to miss the transformation. In many residential estates, once popular for detached homes, towering apartment blocks now dominate the skyline. https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/nairobi/kileleshwa-residents-turn-to-sifuna-over-development-policy-5548620#story
Inspector-General of Police Douglas Kanja has come under fire from senators after failing to arrest and produce Isiolo Governor Abdi Guyo before the Senate despite a warrant of arrest against the county boss. https://nation.africa/kenya/news/senators-furious-with-ig-kanja-over-isiolo-governor-guyo--5549142#story
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