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Alicia Keys in visit to support HIV/AIDS centre

    KAMPALA

    Grammy-award winning singer Alicia Keys is in Uganda on a four-day trip to support anti-HIV/AIDS efforts.

    She is one of several high profile American celebrities supporting the New York-based charity, Keep a Child Alive (KCA), which provides treatment to parents and their children living with HIV/AIDS in Africa.

    She travelled to Masaka, 120 km southeast of the capital, Kampala, to visit KCA-sponsored sites, including the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Masaka Healthcare Centre, which offers free medical care and antiretroviral treatment to HIV-positive children and their families.

    Keys, who arrived in the country on Sunday, spent three days in neighbouring Kenya at a KCA-supported children's project in the coastal city of Mombasa.

    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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