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    "id": 211609,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/211609/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Tett",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Housing",
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    "content": ". Previously, patients used to be referred to 2862 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 31, 2007 Nairobi from the rural areas for services like X-Ray. Today, if you go to your district hospital or the local dispensary, you will find that there are X-Ray facilities, and other such facilities. The malaria index has also gone down. It used to kill a lot of our people, especially children. Our hospitals are now equipped. People are not dying as much as they used to. That is what we are saying is so important. Health comes before anything else. You can lie on a golden bed but if you are sick, it is nothing because you cannot continue with your daily routine. Health is so important to both children and adults. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is now 20 years since the discovery of HIV/AIDS, and life has not been flowery. I would, therefore, like to ask the Ministry to put more money into research, so that we may come up with a vaccine against HIV/AIDS infection. Imagine that Kenya discovered such a vaccine! Some of the researchers involved in such programmes are home-grown. I know that they have carried out four HIV/AIDS vaccine trials. I think we should put a lot of money into research. You know that we have the anti-Polio and the anti-Small Pox vaccines. Why can we not have an anti-HIV/AIDS vaccine? If Kenya finds her own anti-HIV/AIDS vaccine, it will be fantastic. We should also create a fund for a campaign to sensitise women on diseases like cervical cancer. At the moment, there is a vaccine against cervical cancer. Almost 500,000 women suffer from cervical cancer, and 1,500 of them die of the disease every year, yet a vaccine to prevent the disease is available. We need to launch an awareness campaign, so that our women can know about this disease and the vaccine. Even I learnt of the existence of such a vaccine when we had a"
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