CategoriesUncategorizedRecently, the Ting’ang’a Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) site organized a peace walk and a colour festival to urge the community to, exercise political tolerance, respect for one another’s rights and maintenance of peace during the August 9th general elections in the country. The event was well attended by the local administration […]
To improve the health outcomes of the children in Kwale County, LVCT Health, through the USAID Stawisha Pwani project, brought together 22 children and their primary caregivers within two villages in Samburu, Kwale County, for a 14 days Positive Deviance (PD) Hearth camp. The children were part of 489 children who had been screened for malnutrition and […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention global offices (USA, Botswana and Kenya) visited Makongeni Sub-County Hospital in Homa Bay County for a learning expedition on integrating Key Populations HIV prevention services within the Ministry of Health (MOH) mainstream health care services. Makongeni Sub-County Hospital is among the first government-owned facility in Kenya to integrate […]
CategoriesUncategorizedAcross Kenya, PEPFAR’s DREAMS (Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe) program is helping adolescents and young women lead healthy, HIV-free and safe lives. One such girl is Emily Achieng’ Odhiambo, who joined the program in 2020 when LVCT Health began implementing the life-changing intervention in West Kasipul Ward, Homa Bay County. Growing up in a […]
Partners Commit to End GBV in Kenya Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a serious global health challenge, human rights violation, and development issue that continues to pose a challenge in the twenty-first century. It is against this background, that Kenya held the first-ever Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Scientific Conference, 2022, to reinforce multi-sectoral and client-centered […]
LVCT Health’s Senior Technical Advisor Policy and Partnerships and MOSAIC (Maximizing Options to Advance Informed Choice for HIV Prevention) Project Manager, Patriciah Jeckonia is the winner of this year’s Dr Joep Lange Award. She was recognized for the best oral scientific presentation at the International Conference on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis, and Prevention Research (INTEREST 2022), […]
The concept of support groups in improving health outcomes has been widely used in the health sector, especially within the HIV prevention and care & treatment programs. USAID Stawisha Pwani has adopted the concept in reaching out to mothers with maternal infant and young children nutrition services through implementation of baby friendly community initiatives(BFCI), which […]
In Kenya, Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) face increased HIV incidence and a high risk of unintended pregnancy. Statistics show that AGYW in Kenya (aged between 15–24 years) account for 30% of all new HIV infections, and 54% of sexually active AGYW (aged between 15–and 19 years) have an unmet need for contraception. (Adding […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Kenya and Homa Bay County government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as part of the government-to-government funding mechanism to ensure continuity of support in the management of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) in the County. The MOU seeks to contribute to the County’s Health and HIV […]
The Public Finance Management (PFM) Act 2012 took away the freedom of health facilities to retain, bank and spend revenues collected from user fees. Under the Act, revenue collected is supposed to be submitted to the County Revenue Fund (CRF), from where resource distribution to all county sectors is done. This has resulted in a […]
