In 2019, the Government of Kenya, with support from partners, including LVCT Health conducted a second VACS survey to measure progress made since the 2010 VACS and identify emerging trends in violence against children. Today, the Government of Kenya launched the Violence Against Children Survey report, and National Prevention and Response Plan. The event was graced by […]

Following the safety measures announced by the Kenyan government to contain COVID-19 across the country, LVCT Health staff donated food and money to support the most vulnerable beneficiaries in our programmes. The funds drive enabled LVCT Health to distribute food to more than 1,000 vulnerable families across all our offices in Kenya. While distributing the […]

Nairobi (July 8, 2020) – Today Duke University and UNICEF announced that LVCT Health has been awarded a spot in the Duke-UNICEF Innovation Accelerator (DUIA), which aims to support social enterprises tackling the most pressing challenges facing children and youth around the world. Six social enterprises joined the Innovation Accelerator earlier in the year to […]

This July 2020, we’re joining world-leading scientists, policymakers, healthcare professionals and people living with HIV for the 23rd International @AIDS_conference. For the first time ever, the world’s largest conference on HIV and AIDS will be hosted virtually! Join us on 6-10 July 2020. Sessions participation Monday, 6th July 2020 “The power of peers: Training HIV prevention […]

With the recent global developments, we have seen that thinking outside the box has become the new normal in building an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The world has seen, now more than ever, that we need to make sure that our response to all health challenges draws on the best of human ingenuity, […]

Martin Oloo planted vegetables in the backyard of Nyaweri Prevention centre in Kisumu and turned the space into a refreshing garden. He started the garden as a hobby in late March 2020 to keep himself busy and ease mental tension, anxiety, and stress during the COVID-19 pandemic. He named the place “CORONA GARDENS” in reference […]

It is Friday evening, at 10 pm. Our children whose bedtime has long passed are still playing in the background. This is when we, Alfred* and Beate** meet online to discuss our work. It is not the usual time for work meetings. But nothing is normal since the “world declared war on a virus”. The […]

As cases of the COVID-19 pandemic increase in Kenya, the strict measures put in place are having an impact on our women, girls, and children at home. Lockdowns have disrupted families across the cities, school closures disrupted learning and at the family level we have undue stress, tension due to loss of livelihoods and economic […]

I am Joseph Baraza, a trained counsellor, a person with a hearing impairment and work at LVCT Health drop-in center in Nairobi’s central business district. I understand the way of life of people with disabilities and their challenges in accessing health care, including physical, communication and attitudinal barriers. Cases of Gender based violence have been […]

Maryanne (not her real name) first heard of the novel Coronavirus when she got home from work on Friday the 13th of March. A news reporter announced that the first case of Coronavirus had been detected in Kenya. The virus caused a disease that was affecting human lives around the world and had already claimed […]