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AIDS product sales bring female financial freedom

    JOHANNESBURG

    Kenyan women are gaining financial independence by selling medical products to treat AIDS-related skin infections and diarrhoea.

    Local female distributors can purchase the items at wholesale prices through a new programme run by the Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya (SWAK), sell them to HIV-positive people and survive off any profits.

    According to American Public Media's "Marketplace Morning Report", the sales programme was created because few women possessed the education or job skills to support themselves, especially after being widowed.

    The society currently only distributes to Kenya's Nyanza province, but SWAK is planning to make the programme national.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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