Six years ago, right before the pandemic struck, NPR correspondents Rebecca Davis and Marc Silver visited a village called Nduru Beach in Kenya, on the shores of Lake Victoria. We came to meet a groundbreaking group of women. They sold the perch and tilapia caught by the men who fished the waters. Over the years, as the yield of fish diminished, some of these fishermen offered a deal — have sex with me and I'll make sure you have fish to sell. Since a number of these men were HIV positive, this practice has contributed to the high rate of HIV in Kenya. Some women felt they had no choice but to agree. Others were determined to fight it — and came up with a radical proposition. What if the women had their own boats and hired men to fish for them? With a grant from PEPFAR, they got their firs

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