00:00Kenya is running out of free condoms, not because demand is rising, but because donor funding has dried up.
00:08In Kenya, one U.S. dollar buys you about three condoms.
00:12That's also what some sex workers earn per client.
00:16When we don't have condoms, we feel that it's like you're doing zero work.
00:23You cannot eat, no one can come out and sleep you without condom, so it is a disaster.
00:28Sex work is criminalized in Kenya, so we're hiding her identity.
00:33For Grace, a sex worker who is HIV positive, buying extra condoms is very expensive.
00:39She also teaches others about safe sex and hands out free condoms when they're available.
00:45I have to tell them the truth.
00:47You can get HPV through unprotected sex, you can get HIV through unprotected sex,
00:53you can get STI, UTI through unprotected sex.
00:57Free condoms used to be at the heart of Kenya's HIV prevention strategy,
01:01but since the U.S. aid cuts, funding for free condoms and peer educators like Grace is running low.
01:09Kenya needs about 500 million condoms a year.
01:12Even with donor support, the government supplies only about half.
01:16The state admits that it needs to find new ways to provide free condoms to those most at risk, like
01:22sex workers.
01:24But safe sex advocates say there's a bigger problem.
01:28Multiple sex partners.
01:30This is a married couple, but John said I can't retire without one beautiful young girl.
01:35This young girl knows about the wife, but the wife doesn't know about the young girl.
01:41And this young girl has an official boyfriend.
01:45And the chain goes on.
01:481.3 million Kenyans are living with HIV, and the numbers are rising.
01:54Condoms and HIV programs have really improved the lifestyles of people living with HIV AIDS,
02:02have reduced the infection.
02:04Minus the funding, minus the condoms, minus the programs that started to help people to manage HIV AIDS will bring
02:13a big impact.
02:14Health workers say condoms are still the best form of prevention.
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