Florence Mwendwa, 49, proudly showed off her walker as she took unsteady steps up a rocky path surrounded by tea farms in rural Kenya. Her husband, Ashford Mutwiri, helped her walk, but the health workers who visit her regularly at home told her she was looking so much better than a few months ago, when she could not stand.
Before, Mwendwa was bedridden and seriously ill as a result of HIV. Now she is on antiretroviral treatment (ART)—the medications that keep HIV at bay—funded by the US government and delivered by a mission hospital.
ART drugs are flowing again to
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