Like Sa?lly, many women living with HIV in Kenya are increasingly falling victim to cervical cancer even after surviving the shackles of HIV. Of the 1.6 million Kenyans living with HIV, a sizeable fraction are women, whose risk of developing cervical cancer are high. “It appears HIV positive women in Kenya are not losing their lives or suffering health complications due to HIV, thanks to anti-retrovirals. Instead, it is cervical cancer that is hitting them really hard and urgent action is needed to save them,” he says. HIV positive women need to be screened for cervical cancer every six months in the first year then yearly if the results are normal compared to HIV negative ones who are screened every five years.

Source: Standard Digital January 24, 2017 20:45 UTC