PIP: Kenya's National AIDS and STD Control Program (NASCP) estimates that by mid-1994 there were about 1 million people infected with HIV in the country. HIV seroprevalence levels among women attending antenatal clinics at urban and semi-urban sites rose from less than 2% in 1985 to 14% in 1994. It is projected that by the year 2000, 10% of adult Kenyans will be infected with HIV. While it is clear that there will be considerable AIDS-induced disease and death in Kenya, the impact upon the social welfare of the family may be even more devastating, with decades of progress likely to be undermined. AIDS affects the lives of infected individuals, their families and communities, the companies for which they work, and the country overall. The authors consider the need for children to work when parents become sick with AIDS, family and health, labor productivity, opposition to more aggressive HIV/AIDS prevention and care, growing community and government health worker commitment, economic fallout, and policy recommendations.