Nairobi — Thanks to antiretroviral drugs, HIV-positive children can now live to adulthood. Yet a significant number of children living with HIV in Kenya will die due to delay in receiving anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), inconsistent use of ARVs or, simply, no ARVs.
Seven-year-old Melvis* lives in Kisumu Ndog, in Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum, with his 75-year-old grandmother, Sabina. His mother died of AIDS three years ago. He has been taking ARVs most of his short life.
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