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Mother with cancer opts to give up kids

Juliet Mutuku who is on Palliative Care yesterday during an interview at her home in Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Nairobi. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Inside a room marked nine, a fading figure inscribed on the door of a tiny single-roomed house in Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum, is a woman facing the hardest decision of her life. She is battling cervical cancer and has no close family to take care of her. The disease is spreading...