My name is Jeconiah Ochollah, born and raised in Korogocho informal settlement in Nairobi. In 2014, then 17 years old, I was enrolled in the One Child at a Time programme by LVCT Health.The programme sought to reduce vulnerability to sexual exploitation and prevent HIV infection in adolescent girls and boys. Later, it was replaced […]

LVCT Health clinics were amongst the winners at this year’s Health Service Delivery Awards(HSDA) at Nairobi county. The health facilities were selected after undergoing the Kenya Quality Model for Health (KQMH) self-assessments, and the Nairobi county CHMT undertook an independent assessment to determine the winners for this year’s awards. The awards were organised by the […]

Reza Moraa is a 23-year-old teenage mother who became a parent while in secondary school. Her parents could not afford to pay her school fees and as common in most rural areas she was soon married off at a young age. Having gone through difficult childhood, she wanted to provide for her child the basic […]

A team from LVCT Health will feature at this year’s 6th Maisha HIV and AIDS Conference scheduled to take place in Nairobi Kenya from the 14th-16th of June 2021. The conference will be a hybrid of both in-person and virtual platforms in light of the prevailing conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. LVCT Health will feature […]

Experiencing the life of Gender-based violence and abuse has never been anyone’s dream, especially when one is looking forward to getting married. During this COVID-19 pandemic, many women have reported experiencing Gender-based violence from their partners. One of the reasons for such cases has been reported to be stress and strain due to job losses […]

Nelly Muturi from LVCT Health reflects on what she has learned from conducting a Photovoice project with marginalised community members in the informal settlements of Nairobi. While I have been working with marginalized people from urban informal settlements for some time, my experience from the Photovoice phase of the ARISE study has been unique. It […]

As part of activities to mark this year’s International Women’s day LVCT Health joined other key speakers in sharing their experience on the impact of COVID-19 to women. The Gendered Impact of COVID-19 is part of a program series that focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on the gender imbalances in leadership on the pandemic’s […]

At 18 years old and in her final year of secondary education, *Christine Apondo had to sit for her final exam while in the last semester of her pregnancy, an experience she regrets. She then moved in with her husband, who became promiscuous and even went ahead to marry a second wife. Despite having to […]

Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) popularly known as Bilharzia is one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that has been eating into the gains that have been made in the health system. Statistics indicate that 261 million females of reproductive age are at a high risk of suffering the consequences of this parasitic infection. Studies show that […]

My Health My Choice (MHMC) is one of the Evidence-Based Interventions (EBI) under the DREAMS program that targets girls aged 15-17 years both in school and out of school setup. The course that is administered by two facilitators- a male and a female, has four sessions that build on each other progressively. The course should […]