AIDS education reaches remote areas

Doctors Without Borders seeks to curb high infection rate

Between plantations of bananas, mangoes and avocados, a small group of men trek along paths freshly carved out by the November rains on a mission to inform and educate in an area of western Kenya where AIDS remains rife.

In Homa Bay, a remote rural region on the southern shores of Lake Victoria, AIDS is a major problem, with studies showing that 1 in 4 people are HIV-positive.