Who: SWK, PAK, GWK, AMM, Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (KELIN), African Gender and Media Initiative Trust (GEM)
Vs.
Médecins Sans Frontières – France (MSF- France), Pumwani Maternity Hospital, Marie Stopes International, the Nairobi County Executive Committee Member in Charge of Health Services, Cabinet Secretary – Ministry of Health, Republic of Kenya and The Attorney General.
What: The High Court in Nairobi (Constitutional and Human Rights Division) will on Monday, 8 February, 2016 mention Petition No. 605 of 2014 to give directions on the hearing of a preliminary objection filed by Marie Stopes International. The preliminary objection, which was filed on 18 January, 2016, questions the jurisdiction of the court to hear and determine this petition.
The Court will also hear applications by parties seeking to be enjoined as Friends of the Court and interested parties. These include: Secretariat of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); Professor Alicia Yamin Ely of the Harvard School of Public Health; and the Chairperson of the National Gender and Equality Commission. The International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) – Global and ICW – Kenya sought to be enjoined onto the case as Interested Parties.
When: Monday 8 February, 2016 at 0900hrs
Where: High Court of Kenya at Nairobi, Court No. 1 on 3rd Floor, Milimani Law Courts.
PLEASE NOTE: The applicants request that their names and identity should not be disclosed in the media to protect them from further disclosure of their HIV-status.
For more information contact:
Allan Maleche (Executive Director) KELIN and Advocate for the Petitioners.
4th Floor, Somak Building, Mombasa Road.
Mobile No: +254 708 389 870; Email: amaleche@kelinkenya.org
For Twitter updates: @KELINkenya #Justice2Health
For background on the case: https://kelinkenya.org/2014/12/announcement/
