U Mombasa County: We hosted a USAID Kenya and Washington team for a learning visit on the Key population programming within our USAID Stawisha Pwani project. The team visited health facilities and drop-in centres, interacting with service providers and some project beneficiaries. During the visit, the team were taken through some of the project’s best […]

LVCT Health’s GBV Snr. Technical Advisor Michael Gaitho (In a red T-shirt) shares IEC materials with the Mombasa County Governor Nassir and Chief Justice Martha Koome during the commissioning of GBV Rescue Centre Mombasa County:  We were privileged to join the Chief Justice of Kenya, Martha Koome, Mombasa County Governor H.E. Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir, and other […]

Jacob Omondi reports on housing issues in Mathare slum, Kenya.  Informal settlements can be dysfunctional due to lack of organization as well as neglect by the Government when it comes to channeling funding and resources towards housing development. Allocating resources to support housing should be given more attention in order to eliminate social and structural […]

In January 2022, Health Systems Global (HSG) and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (The Alliance), in close collaboration with Health Policy and Planning, invited applications from early-career women based in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) working on health policy and systems research (HPSR), looking to publish their research for the first time in a global peer-reviewed journal, but […]

Nyeri 27 July 2023: LVCT Health signed a partnership agreement with the County Government of Nyeri to strengthen HIV/TB prevention and treatment services in the county. The agreement will promote collaboration between the County Government of Nyeri, the Department of Health Services, Public Health and Sanitation, and LVCT Health in the areas of health system strengthening […]

In the spirit of journey to self-reliance, LVCT Health’s Vukisha95 project conducted a two-days orientation meeting with the Homa Bay County Health Management Team, Members of the Homa Bay County Assembly, County Public Service Board as well as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to deliberate on context-specific transition planning for HIV/TB services in […]

According to a survey by the Pew Research Centre, as of 2021, 95% of teenagers (ages 13-17) in the United States had access to a smartphone, and 89% of those teenagers used social media. The same survey found that 45% of teenagers were online “almost constantly.” Despite the widespread availability of the internet, there are […]

Kisumu County: LVCT Health, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, officially launched the #CATALYST (Catalyzing Access to New Prevention Products to Stop HIV), a MOSAIC (Maximizing Options to Advance Informed Choice for HIV Prevention) flagship product introduction study.  The study seeks to provide and assess for an enhanced service delivery package that includes oral […]

Awareness of HIV status is critical in addressing the HIV epidemic among the population at risk of HIV infection. Social Network Strategy (SNS) has proved to be an incredibly successful strategy for locating individuals at the highest risk for HIV and bringing them in for testing, counselling and referral services, and this is one of […]