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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 […]
CategoriesUncategorizedThe 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 […]
Most times, people do not understand what it means to be a change agent in the community. Some think that change agents are just mobilizers who walk around in the community to address a few things. Others even confuse them with preachers who go for the door-to-door escapades evangelizing the gospel. But, worry no more, […]
“Growing up in a remote village of Gem, Siaya County did not give me the best childhood experience”, says Valerie Akoth. Valerie now 18-years-old, lost her mother at a tender age and had to live the better part of her life with her father. Her father relied on menial jobs from nearby plantations or whatever […]
Sitting on the beautiful shores of Lake Victoria and admiring the beautiful sunsets, one cannot help but imagine what this Africa’s largest lake and world’s second-largest fresh water has to offer for the people who live around it. Your mind will first click to the economic benefits such as tourism and fishing before proceeding to how […]
September 2021, marked the end of a five-year Daraja project. To celebrate the project, LVCT Health, Nairobi County health officials and other partners came together to take stock of the milestones made in transforming the lives of key population, adolescents, young girls, and women into better and equipped people. Funded by the U.S President’s Emergency […]