you and find innovative ways of inspiring them and sustaining their lives. Those living with HIV and AIDS should not be shunned; there are ways of helping a PLWAS feel good and by so doing, enhancing the quality and even duration of their lives. If you are infected, closely work with health workers and counselors to prevent or treat other illnesses. (iv) Spearhead the campaign in your family, community and at work: volunteer to work in the community and at the workplace and join advocacy efforts aimed at confronting the challenges posed by HIV and AIDS. However minimal these efforts may look, when looked at cumulatively, they can have far, wide reaching and great effects. The world is a better place today because of the boldness and courage of people like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi: an idea acted upon by a few can have great impact. (v) Become an integral part of the campaign to‘Bwogo’ HIV and AIDS: stubbornly refuse to become a statistic (by avoiding infection); resist attempts to allow HIV and AIDS to decimate the new Kenyan and to stigmatise those Kenyans who have fallen prey to it. Kenyans need to ask some hard questions like: why have we not succeeded in stopping this enemy dead on its tracks? What is it that you as an individual; we as a family and community; we as‘ unbwogable’ Kenyans can do to resoundingly and emphatically respond to this challenge? Make a difference, be part of the solution. As Kenyans we can“Bwogo” HIV and AIDS! Friedrich Ebert Foundation(FES) P.O. Box 14932 00800 Peponi Plaza Nairobi, Kenya Become part of the Solution The HIV/ AIDS Challenge: Our Social Responsibility