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There are 1.5 million people living with HIV /AID S in Kenya, and Médecins Sans Frontières’s (MSF) work in the country continues with a strong focus on HIV care. Teams are also providing relief and healthcare to hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees living in camps around the town of Dadaab.

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In early 2009, as people fleeing the fighting in Somalia arrived in Kenya in their thousands, MSF teams re-started working in Dadaab refugee camp in Dagahaley in the northeast of the country after a five year absence. Teams also responded to numerous emergencies, including fuel tanker explosions and the return of a cholera epidemic, and treated people with kala azar, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB).

© Juan Carlos Tomasi At the beginning of 2008, disputes over Kenya's presidential election sparked two months of violence, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and, according to the Kenyan Red Cross, as many as 300,000 displaced. MSF medical staff, who normally focus on providing treatment to thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) in the capital, Nairobi, and western Kenya, were on hand to respond.