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Ann is a single mother of two children (aged 12 and 13) and lives in the Kawangware slum in Nairobi. She earns a living doing poorly paid odd jobs in her neighbourhood and manages to provide her two children with a school education.
Ann is HIV-positive. However, she did not know either what her immune cell count (CD4 cells) was, or what her viral load in her blood was. Yet it is important to know both of these figures so as not to miss the opportunity to start effective (and, in Kenya, provided free of charge!) antiretroviral therapy (ART). If this had happened, Ann could have died from the notorious opportunistic infections such as TB, bacterial infections, meningitis, etc. Furthermore, she urgently needed to have a cervical cancer screening carried out by a gynaecologist.
Both the HIV test and the cervical cancer screening have been carried out thanks to your help.
The good news is that there is currently no need for treatment for HIV, and there is no evidence of cervical cancer or any risk of cancer!
