1.Doreen Moraa Moracha.
Doreen Moraa Moracha is a social influencer championing against HIV/AIDs stigma using her own lived experience.Doreen is a young woman living with HIV.
The beautiful young lady Doreen declared her HIv status through her social media pages.For her she got it from her mother through mother to child transmission.Her mother was positive but her father was negative.She learned she was HIV positive when he was in primary.
2.Joji Biro.
Joji Biro is a Kenyan gospel artist.The viral homosexual gospel artist went to public about his relationship status including to be having HIV/AIDS virus.He also openly confessed that he is a gay.
3.Journalist Evelyn Simaloi.
Evelyn Simaloi has been living with HIV since 1999.The Kenyan journalist, who is never shy of telling her story, in an interview with the Nairobian narrated her journey living with HIV/AIDs.
She was not even aware until one day sometimes later when she needed a blood test, when she was applying for a job.Evelyn confessed how she was infected by her ex boyfriend.
4.Kennedy Okwako.Phenny Awiti.
He was a Kenyan musician and MC who based in Wurzburg,Germany. He got the infection from his German girlfriend, he later infected eight different women and got detained. He passed away in 2015.
5.Phenny Awiti.
She is a mum of three and she does not shy off when it comes to issues of HIV/AIDS. She got the infection during child birth from her mother, she learnt that she was positive when she was in form 2.
She participated in several seminars, radio shows and dialogues to educate people living with the infection. She is a courageous woman who battled stigma and a great supporter on topics about practices in safe sex. She is married and her children are negative.
6.Frigacy.
Frigacy born George Kihara was the first Kenyan celebrity to confess of being HIv positive.
The Mapenzi hitmaker revealed that he was hooked to drugs at age 16 while in form 2. He continued taking drugs till he completed his high school education in 2010 where he now made drinking, smoking drugs and partying full-time job.
However not long after too much parties in the Nairobi’s local clubs and pubs, Frigacy tested positive for HIV.
7.Lady Maureen.
Maureen Murenga discovered she was HIV positive in 2002, when those living with the virus in Kenya had little access to treatment and preventive drug.
The death of Ohangla singer lady Maureen shocked many of her fans.She died in 2020 while battling the virus,she died shortly after being released from the hospital.
8.Binyavanga Wainaina.
On world Aids day 2016 Binyavanga WInaina announced on his Twitter profile that he was HIV positive and happy.
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