When the mention of HIV/Aids was a death sentence

Hand holding AIDS awareness ribbon [Courtesy]

On Valentine’s day last week, Joe Muriuki, one of the first Kenyans to publicly share his HIV-positive status succumbed to oesophagus cancer.

Muriuki had gone public about his status in 1987, three years after the "slimming disease" hit our shores.

His declaration came at the stigma around the disease was such that its name,...