Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, food donation organised by the Rotary clubs of Thika and Thika West, with support from the Bank of Africa, is going on.

The Kenya Network of Women with Aids (Kenwa), with offices at the heart of Kiandutu, tells of people with HIV who are in dire need of medicines.

Ms Josephine Wanjiru, who is in-charge of Kenwa in Kiambu, says: "Since Covid-19 was first reported in Kenya, the government forgot that other ailments exist.

People are dying in the slums for luck of HIV drugs, and they will continue to die if the government does not act fast".

Benjamin Githae of Rotary District 9212 said that the food distribution mainly targeted the blind, those engaged in prostitution and people living with HIV.