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School, principal ordered to pay Sh1.2m for disclosing student's HIV status

School, principal ordered to pay Sh1.2m for disclosing student's HIV status

Teachers and administrators discussed the girl's health and antiretroviral use without consent.

Teachers and administrators discussed the girl's health and antiretroviral use without consent, driving her to flee and face denial of readmission.

A tribunal has ordered a Kajiado secondary school and its principal to pay a minor Sh1.2 million as damages for unlawful disclosure of her HIV status to teachers and other learners.

The HIV and AIDS Tribunal found that the school administrator unlawfully disclosed the girl's medical condition and discriminated against her, contributing to her departure from the institution due to stigma.

The man unlawfully disclosing her HIV status to relatives, her church.

Kenyan courts are increasingly ruling against employers for severe workplace violations.

The contract targeted fixed-dose antiretroviral combinations used in the HIV programme.

The Tribunal held that KDF is not exempt from the HIV and Aids Prevention and Control Act, 2006.

High Court rules that KDF violated HIV testing laws.

More than 1.7 million Kenyans have been registered since July.

Judge strikes down barriers to refugees' work permits.

Lona Nenkai spent her 10th birthday in intensive care on a ventilator, leaving her mother with a Sh6 million hospital bill

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