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Basic and HIV/AIDS care for slum dwellers

    JOHANNESBURG

    A new health centre started providing basic healthcare and HIV/AIDS treatment to residents of Kibera, a slum in Kenya's capital, Nairobi on Thursday.

    Kibera South Health Centre, an initiative by the government and international NGO, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), will be the first to give residents direct access to the most basic public healthcare.

    The MSF head of mission, Christine Jamet, said in a statement: "The population in this densely populated slum is extremely socially and economically vulnerable ... disease is rife, with the biggest killer in the slum being HIV/AIDS-related illnesses."

    According to Jamet the more than 600,000 people in one of Africa's largest slums were living in conditions where health, sanitation and infrastructure were non-existent.

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