Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 22, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july a15 Treyve Given mercy a new lease on life by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter they say aids was Proba Bly born in some nonhuman primate perhaps passing on its virus to a Hunter so Many years controversial evidence pins the infection Back to Zaire in the in the people in Uganda started wasting away with what was dubbed slims Dis then came the pitiless onslaught in the Early As the virus swamped sub saharan and now aids threatens to take one million people world wide to Early Graves this in the about will fall to in the num ber is closer to but aids research is about More than the it is also about lives that Are the Pill linked to higher his risk to statutes in Kenya sing Oral contraceptives been found to be at greater risk of contracting according to research done by Manitoba specialists Frank Plum Mer and Allan Ronald says it is still theory As to Why this but it is Likely that Oral contraceptives at the Mouth of the More cells that the his virus can it has to find cells that have these receptors called cd4 on their in the Normal Vagina or the nor Mal these cells just Arent he says the risk of a woman get Ting infected by an his partner through regular sex say 75 125 times a year is about two to three per cent a but if Shes on Oral Contra Cep it Plummer remains unbowed by the heat he has taken because of those controversy erupted Over publicizing that information because of fears of harming birth control Plummer but that controversy fuelled further research on Oral contraceptives role in his transmission and about half of the studies particularly those that focused on prostitutes confirmed the from top Shaban Mohamed tends a Punwani apartments Long mud and Wood the father of who lost his wife to is his Middle Punwani prostitute Agnes examined by Joshua Kimani has defied All Odds and remains her immunity is the basis of research that May Lead to an aids below Punwani kids play amidst sewage and Mounds of mercy is born just about the time the human immunodeficiency virus began silently invading her the Punwani area of if the aids epidemic can be likened to a Nairobi was its prostitute mercy and her brother Morris and sister Jane lived with their a prostitute like thousands of other women in a stinking place of the poors peo ple scratch livings from a num ber of some work in factories in the or As care takers for the properties owned in Punwani by others resell food or garments they buy outside their Little but there Arent Many options for in More than 90 per cent of these As they Are tested positive for through a program of the Manitoba Kenya aids got out of Selling sex and started a Little business of her she repackaged Petroleum Jelly in smaller containers and took it to a Border town where it is in life was new then she now mercy Sells the Little Plas tic boxes of the she and her siblings have gone to live with their grandmother in another Vil the project can do Little for those with its Best medi Cine is preventing others from falling prey to we reckon that we prevent new cases per says Manitoba Frank at per from top orphaned by aids at the age of mercy Wambui and her brother and sister have escaped thanks to the Canadia kenyan Middle Patricia Asero Ochieng is a Mother of two who chased away a violent but she and daughter Consolata were left with his legacy Ochieng works As a counsellor for aids education and support services in the Pandora Bottom Jane in her on room is a Leader among the Punwani recruited by the aids research project to help women work for a better ;