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    "content": "talking about 2015 being the action year for education for all and we are cheating ourselves in the Republic. It is important to take this matter seriously, in the sense that, since we started getting to know about HIV/AIDS, it has been spreading. Sometimes we are told that it has gone down or up, but we have no actual figures to prove that it has totally been controlled. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are discussing this Motion with the hope that something will happen after we depart from this House. Let us see contribution towards the spirit of the Motion. Let us see the effort of devolving the NACC taken to the counties. That is the only way we can convince ourselves that something will happen. I was also of the opinion that when it comes to budgetary allocation, we should allocate money to this department. We form an independent department of HIV/AIDS where the money will be set aside, so that we know who will be in charge of the counties, location or sub-location level, so that those who are infected are treated and find out what we can do with the families of the affected. It is so bad such that in some areas, when somebody is known to have this disease; he/she lives in isolation. People run away from the infected victims and they do not greet them. The infected victims feels like they can die before the actual date of death because of the stigma surrounding this disease. Therefore, we would like our people out there in the counties to feel that there are people who are thinking about them. We are the ones to do it because if we do not do it, constitutionally, who else will do it? That is the reason why it has been brought here. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is important to note that the moment you identify the victims of this disease, we should be humane enough to give them proper treatment and accord them home visits. We must make sure that they have a good diet and we have specialized doctors or hospitals treating them. We should have Level 5 or 6 hospitals with a separate ward where specialized treatment and doctors will be given the drugs directly without having to come all the way to Nairobi to get the money to treat the patients. I am speaking with some sense of authority because when we were in the Ninth Parliament, we were told to form groups which would be given money from the National Treasury. However, those groups could not do what was supposed to be done using the money they received from the National Treasury. At the end, they misappropriated and the victims passed on because of lack of drugs. That became the problem of the dependants. There was nobody to pay fees for the children. They ended up looking for politicians to provide them with bursaries because they had to cater for more dependants. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is important that we have the NACC devolved to the counties. We should ensure that a department of Ministry of Health is created in all counties. Let this department be facilitated to purchase enough drugs. These drugs should be provided to all counties to assist the people who are suffering from this disease. At the same time, the disease can also be treated so that we do not have frail victims walking around and people suspecting that they are victims of HIV/AIDS. That can only be done by closely monitoring the development of the symptoms. We can have specialized The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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