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Jane Wangui: "I don't know where to get my drugs when the camp closes"
Jane Wangui an HIV-positive mother-of-four, is living in Nairobi's Jamhuri Park, where a camp has been set up for internally displaced persons who fled the violence that erupted across the country after controversial December 2007 elections. She explained to IRIN/PlusNews how the displacement has affected her life.
The crowded Jamhuri IDP camp may not be much of a home, but Wangui has nowhere else to go. (Image: Julius Mwelu/IRIN)
"I was brought to Nairobi and taken to Kamukunji police station, where I stayed for a night until a Good Samaritan [from the Christian HIV/AIDS outreach programme] offered to take me to Jamhuri Park.
"Before I was displaced I was on antiretroviral drugs and had been collecting them from a clinic in Malaba-Teso district [near the Kenya-Uganda border, where she was living]. When the skirmishes began I went without taking my drugs for two weeks.
