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Nuru ya Jamii Children Sleep Easier Thanks to "Sleeping Kit" Donations
FHI Awarded APHIA II Project in Rift Valley and Coastal Province
Nuru ya Jamii Prevents Children from Becoming Orphans FHI is pioneering an innovative, family-centered approach to preventing children from becoming orphans. It is called Nuru ya Jamii (Light of the Family in Kiswahili). The one-year-old initiative provides vulnerable children and their HIV-positive parents and caretakers with wide-ranging care and support services. This will enable the adults to live longer, benefitting parents and children alike.
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Integrating Family Planning and HIV Services Proves Feasible FHI is working with the MOH to integrate family planning and voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services. An FHI study found that provision of family planning services during VCT was feasible and acceptable to providers and clients and that integration did not negatively affect VCT quality. Now, work is underway to strengthen the family planning counseling that VCT providers offer clients and to increase uptake of contraception by women who wish to space or limit births. Community-based Distribution of Contraceptives Can Serve Unmet Need Community-based distribution of contraceptives can serve unmet family planning needs of women in rural communities and isolated city neighborhoods. FHI is promoting the provision of Depo Provera, an injectable contraceptive, by community health providers and working with the MOH to change policies and update service delivery guidelines to reflect research on this successful service delivery model. FHI Promotes Evidence-Based Decisions in Health Programming FHI is helping the Kenyan Ministry of Health's Division of Reproductive Health increase its institutional capacity to manage research and to use data to develop evidence-based reproductive health programs and guidelines.
APHIA II Baseline Behavioral Monitoring Survey Report: Coast--Rift Valley 2007 It's Time: Reaching All Children with Pediatric HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment (Brochure on FHI's work in pediatric aids, 1.3 KB) Publications Address IMPACT Project Experience in Kenya
Other Kenya-related Publications
FHI's strong partnerships with U.S. and host-country governmental agencies, international NGOs, universities, and local and faith-based organizations play a vital role in our high-quality research and programs.
FHI's office in Kenya is here to help. If you want to learn more about the office, visit the Contact Web page. |
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JULY 2008 — Five-hundred children from FHI's 
NOVEMBER 2006 – The U.S. Agency for International Development has selected FHI to lead implementation of the AIDS, Population, and Health Integrated Assistance Program (APHIA II) in Kenya's Rift Valley and Coast Province from 2006-2009. The program will help Kenyans lead healthier lives by easing access to an increased range of quality health services. The U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, Michael E. Ranneberger, officially launched the program in Mombasa, Kenya, on Sept. 26.
