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    "content": "this particular Bill. I also congratulate the doctors in all areas of the medical profession for the strides that they have made since the challenge of HIV/AIDS came in the world. Before I forget, allow me to differ with Sen. (Dr.) Machage on his remarks on Prof. Arthur Obel, my lecturer of Pharmacology, a scholar of international repute who continues to be respected to date. It is also my pleasure to disclose that Prof. Obel was my friend and also came from my place in Busia. The efforts that Prof. Obel made can only be comparable to Michael Faraday’s. Before Faraday was celebrated for his role in the science of electricity, he tried 400 different experiments. Every time he failed, he was never condemned because he said, “I have found yet another method through which it will not work.” He repeated the phrase until after 400 times when he found that one method that worked. So we must celebrate and be proud of him. This Bill will require that, in the Third Reading, we go through the entire Bill because an attempt is being made by Sen. (Dr.) Machage to look at Sections 4 and 11 of the Bill alone. There are many issues in the other areas, some of them clerical, that we will require that the Bill is aligned with the county governments, and to devolution, to some extent. In the parent Bill, which I am proud to have participated in passing in the House, there are many areas where we speak to the Minister. It requires that in each one of those areas, we replace Minister by that specific officer we want to assign responsibility in every county government. I see Sen (Dr.) Machage has made an attempt to assign responsibility to the entire County Executive Committee. On a serious and specific issue like this, you cannot give it just to the cabinet. You must single out. If we shall eventually agree at the Committee stage with Dr. Machage, it will be nice for the County Executive Committee Member (CEC), in charge of health to play the role played by the Minister in the parent Bill. I thank the doctors for the efforts they have put up-to-date. May I share with Members that when the first HIV headline hit the world, I was a student of medicine in the 1980s and it was a sad story. Patients in Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) used to come from the countryside and they would be locked, quarantined in a room. Food would be thrown to them, relatives would not go in, hospital workers would not enter that cubical and we were doing the ward rounds through the window. We would look in and see that particular patient. It was very pathetic. Patients could stink because there was nobody to clean them. Relatives would be told that the patients would die just like they are treating Ebola. I thank the steps made to bring us where we are today. Going specifically to the Bill, allow me to laud the Global Fund on HIV and AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. This is the backbone of improved survival rates that we see amongst HIV and AIDS patients. I therefore, appeal to Dr. Machage that during the Committee stage, he moves an amendment to change the title of this Amendment Bill. Instead of being limited to the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control, (Amendment Bill) (Senate Bill 2015), I want to appeal to Sen. (Dr.) Machage that it should read the; ‘HIV and AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis Prevention and Control (Amendment Bill) of 2015.’ Dr. Machage, because the Global Fund--- 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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