Installed five Community Health Information Centers in 2002 (Kiambu, Killifi, Kajiado, Busia, Kisumu).

	Installed 13 Community Health Information Centers in Kenya in 2003 (Kiberia, Nakuru, Meru, Liverpool, Kitale, Mombasa, Kwale, Migori, Embu, Kendu Bay, Kanco, St. Johns, Eldoret).
	Installed the first Medical Information Center at the University of Nairobi Medical School in 2003.

Below is an archive of all previous new stories related to WiRED's projects in Kenya.

• An Adventure in Service . . . Full Story



• Helping Hands (Margaret's Story) . . . Full Story



• A Ray of Hope . . . Full Story



• Change Through Information . . . Full Story



• Rehabilitation Through Knowledge . . . Full Story



• Disabled Outreach with John Oduor . . . Full Story



• Press Release: International Day for Campaign Against Drug Abuse and Illegal Trafficking . . . Full Story (.pdf file)



• Press Release: International Day for Campaign Against Drug Abuse and Illegal Trafficking . . . Full Story (.pdf file)



• Community Health Information Centers and the Traditional Healers in Maasai Land . . . Full Story



• I Am A Peer Educator and Proud Of It! . . . Full Story



• Kenya Central and Coastal Region . . . Full Story



• Press Release: International Day for Campaign Against Drug Abuse and Illegal Trafficking . . . Full Story (.pdf file)



• U.S. National Institutes of Health, Office of AIDS Research Renews Funding for WiRED's HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs in Kenya . . . Full Story



• WiRED working with people with HIV/AIDS . . . Full Story



• Premarital Sex . . . Full Story



• The Special But Underserved . . . Full Story



• The Total Silence! . . . Full Story



• WiRED International: An Appropriate Way to Reach Adolescents
  . . . Full Story



• Commercial Sex Workers: Suffering from An Acute Deficiency of Health Information . . . Full Story



• Kiambu Youth Reaching the Unreachable . . . Full Story



• My Nightmare. This is the story of a young man who had a tough life despite being a humble man . . . Full Story



• A Visit Worth Our Time . . . Full Story



• Touching Many Lives . . . Full Story



• A young couple visited the Maua-Meru Community Health Information Center (CHIC) and requested that they access information on HIV/AIDS . . . Full Story



• "Getting one member of a congregation to come to a centre has led to a ripple effect and has brought in 10 other members who have now visit the centre every week . . ." Full Story



• A young man walked into a WiRED Community Health Information Centre (CHIC) in Kajiado, went through a list of CDs available at the centre and settled for the STI CD . . . Full Story



• Nancy, a 41-year-old woman, and her daughter Miriam, who is 15, visited the Communiy Health Information Center (CHIC) within the Kibera slums in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, to access health information . . . Full Story



• "We had never heard of such a disease, so I paid a visit to the WiRED Centre in Mombasa . . ." Full Story



• "I recently heard about the Community Health Information Center (CHIC)and decided to find out more about it . . ." Full Story



• Testimonials from Kenya, July 2003
  By various writers . . . Full Story



• "Community Health Information Center Volunteers: The 'hearts and souls' of the Centers"
  By Pauline Karani . . . Full Story



• "Health in the Streets"
  By Stella Gitia - Embu CHIC Volunteer
  "Embu Community Health Information Center (CHIC) has taken the Embu society by storm . . ." Full Story



• "My Obligation"
  By Bernard Maracha
  "My desire to provide health information to people that have faced neglect and hardships in their lives led me to work with street children . . ." Full Story



• University of Nairobi College of Health Sciences
  Opening of WiRED Medical Information Center
  Dedication Speech by Gary W. Selnow, Executive Director, WiRED
  . . . Full Story



• US Ambassador Johnnie Carson dedicated WiRED's Medical Information Center at the College of Medical Sciences of the University of Nairobi. This is the full text of U.S. Ambassador Johnnie Carson 's speech at the dedication ceremony.
  . . . Full Story



• "11-year old boy Saves His Family from HIV/AIDS"
  By Mary Makokha, Program Manager
  Rural Education and Economic Enhancement Program (REEP)
  . . . Full Story



• Nutrition and AIDS: The Crucial Link
  "The problem in Kenya is that poverty has made it all but impossible for most people to afford special health care available to people with HIV/AIDS in Western countries." The lack of medication imposes challenges that Rose Otaye confronts with special diets, all of them with common foods and none beyond the economic reach of average people . . . Full Story



• WiRED International Expands HIV/AIDS Prevention Services in Kenya — 11 New Community Health Information Centers Open Their Doors . . . Full Story



• WiRED International's Community Health Information Center and REEP's Voluntary Counseling and Testing Program Go Hand-in-Hand to Benefit Youth . . . Full Story



• BUTULA TRADITIONAL HEALERS ACQUIRE A NEW STATUS
  "Mwanaisha Narotso wears many masks. She not only sells fruit and grains at the local market but she is also a well-known traditional birth attendant and an herbalist . . ." Full Story



• Notes from the field . . . an update from Gary Selnow.
  "It is very rewarding to see the older orphans teaching computer skills to the younger orphans . . ." Full Story



• "Perishing For Lack of Knowledge"
  U.S. National Institutes of Health, Global Strategies for HIV Prevention and Firelight Foundation provide funding for the first nine Community Health Information Centers in Kenya
  . . . Full Story



• Barbara's Story: Impact at the Grass Roots . . . Full Story



• April 2002, Medicine at WiRED's Community Health Information Centers: Where Tradition Meets Technology . . . Full Story



• Pauline's Story: Traditional Healers Benefit from Technology
  . . . Full Story



• Pauline Karani, WiRED Community Health Information Centers, Kenya Project Manager . . . Full Story



• January 2002 — AIDS Community Health Information Centers Initiated . . . Full Story



• AIDS Link Developed by San Francisco Group — Kenya Villages Gain Access to Treatment and Research Information
  . . . Full Story



• National Institutes of Health Funds WiRED Community Health Information Centers in Kenya . . . Full Story



• Twenty-five Community Health Information Centers for Africa
  . . . Full Story



• WiRED Provides Real Hope and Genuine Promise for Orphans in Kenya . . . Full Story



• How the Message about AIDS Travels . . . Full Story



• Shared Vision Brings Wired to Kenya . . . Full Story

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