KENYA: Illiteracy hampers treatment programmes
http://www.plusnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=93324 ( Illustrating the real world challenges that are there in the field, the challenges that have to be confronted in roll out of treatment. The issue is not only provision of drugs. It is much more than that. And, it is these barriers which may be the most challenging. This article barely scratches the challenge of communication.) Photo: John Nyaga/IRIN More community healthcare workers needed TURKANA/NAIROBI, 25 July 2011 (PlusNews) - Isaac Nanok religiously collects his antiretrovirals (ARVs) from his local health centre every month, but the information on the packaging is meaningless as he is illiterate. "All I know is that when I get home, I will take a tablet in the morning and also in the evening. When they are finished, I go back for more," he told IRIN/PlusNews at his home in northern Kenya's Turkana region. "I don't know what is written here on the container, and even the doctor just talks to me in Sw