Kenya: Aids Compromising Ability to Deliver Education

The education sector in Kenya is being threatened by the AIDS pandemic, according to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Speaking at a local school, the assistant Minister of Education, Peter Odoyo, said the commission was losing many teachers to HIV/AIDS, which was undermining the sector's efforts and jeopardising the survival of the TSC. Odoyo commented that in one district alone, 100 teachers and 450 students died every year from HIV/AIDS.