NAIROBI: Irene Akinyi Odinga has lead poisoning. With no money for treatment, the young mother of two stares death in the face.

“I feel very bad,” the 25-year-old tells AFP on the sidelines of a UN pollution conference, shivering in a thick jacket in the warm Kenyan sun.

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