GENERIC antiretrovirals will from Tuesday be given to 76 Kenyan orphans who have tested HIV-positive, under a ground-breaking programme, said a priest spearheading the project. Father Angelo D’Agostino said the programme, in which drugs donated by a Brazilian company are to be used, would be instituted at Nairobi’s Nyumbani orphanage, which he runs. The medicine, a syrup form of the anti-Aids drug AZT, will be given to the children in the presence of Marsden Madoka, the minister in charge of internal security in the office of the president, D’Agostino said. Antiretrovirals delay the onset of full-blown Aids and improves the quality and duration of lives of those who have developed HIV. -AFP