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Kenya鈥檚 running low on anti-HIV drugs. Antiretrovirals can be really helpful, when it comes to keeping people with HIV healthy and stopping the virus from spreading. But for the last couple of months, they鈥檝e been hard to come by in Kenya.

鈥淲e don鈥檛 want to go back [to a situation] where our health is compromised and we are not able to have access to this key, vital treatment,鈥� says Zahra Hassan, from Women Fighting HIV and Aids group.

This situation is partly due to a tax dispute between the government and donors who import the drugs. Health workers on the ground tell a different story though: the Africa Daily team was told access to these life-saving drugs has been a problem for a while.

Zahra Hassan has been telling us about the situation where she is in Homa Bay.

"Homa Bay is running dry. Unless the situation is not reversed in the next two weeks or so, we will be highly affected with zero drugs."

"As we're speaking there's no treatment for children. Some of the parents we've been talking to have been giving them adult treatment. We are compromising their immune system, their health in general."

Photo: A patient being screened for HIV in Homa Bay county, Kenya Credit: Getty Images

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