![]() She got pregnant, but two months into her pregnancy when going for ante-natal visit, she was discovered to be HIV positive and put on ARVs to prevent mother to child transmission. Soon they made their relationship official. Habiba (not her real name) befriended a man who had come to Eastleigh though he does not live in Nairobi. There is also talk that some of them drink the codeine cough syrup once they have chewed miraa and this leaves them highly sexual and intoxicated.” ![]() They dupe the women, leave many of them pregnant and some with sexually transmitted diseases because caution to protected sex is thrown to the winds.”Īccording to Abdi, the tribulations faced by the women are immense and include some of them being introduced to drugs. He noted: “These men are even the cause of marriages breaking up. Women run after them because they splash money around in a way never seen before.” The Somali women in Eastleigh say they were infected by men from their own community, mainly from the Diaspora or out of Nairobi who duped them into having sexual relationships.Įxplained Jaldesa Abdi (not his real name): “The men who come from the Diaspora are heavily loaded with cash. According to the 2016 Kenya Aids Progress Report, all these counties have a low prevalence rate ranging from one to 4.9 percent. ![]() The Somali community in Kenya mainly inhabit the counties of Wajir, Mandera, Garissa, Marsabit, Moyale and Isiolo. Anyone who is known to be HIV positive gets discriminated, isolated and stigmatised for the condition. The fear is enhanced by the fact that they are living with HIV, which is considered taboo in their community. The women, who are of Somali origin, are careful about what they do, and who they interact with lest they get exposed. Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Oman, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.Deep on the shadowy dark corridors of the flats that make up Eastleigh, live a group of women who are constantly watching each other’s back. ![]()
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