The development comes at a time when local researchers at the University of Nairobi, collaborating with those from Manitoba University of Canada, have intensified efforts to find the gene that protects some Kenyan prostitutes from HIV infections despite repeated exposure to the virus.
The study conducted at Kenyatta National Hospital’s School of Medicine hopes to come up with a new way of designing a vaccine candidate.
Since last year the researchers have opened up new centres in Korogocho and Kangemi to study more prostitutes. The research will go on until 2010 and is expected to shed more light on why they are resistant to HIV infection.
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Although the incidence of HIV in Kenya is said to have stabilised in the last few years, there are still concerns over specific groups which include couples and steady partners, male prostitutes and surprisingly enough among medical personnel.

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