Kenya: Radio program incites Kenyan government action on AIDS

Radio presenter/producer team Ann Mikia and Sammy Muraya from the Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation’s (KBC) weekly HIV/AIDS program, 'A Stitch in Time', played a key role in the launch of a government HIV/AIDS program among public taxi drivers. In August 2004, Mikia and Muraya decided to tackle a difficult topic which was not being addressed by Kenya’s government AIDS program. The radio team focused on matatu touts (public minibus taxi drivers) and schoolgirls who exchange sex with the drivers for free rides or money.