Kenya

Through a grant awarded under Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), World Vision strengthens the consistency and sustainability of wheelchair service provision in Kenya, India, Romania, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The Accelerating Core Competencies for Effective Wheelchair Service and Support (ACCESS) project bolsters the management and service capacity of local partners through stakeholder engagement and mobilization and local and national level advocacy efforts.

Through a grant awarded under Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), World Vision increases access to and use of voluntary family planning services through the integration of healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies and family planning into the Starting Strong project in the Garba Tulla district in Kenya.

World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization that focuses its efforts on emergency relief, education, health care, gender issues, economic development, and child advocacy. World Vision partners with children and families to help them break the cycle of poverty using a community development approach.

August 12, 2014
Article

This news article reports that HealthRight International awarded nearly $500,000 from APC to integrate FP activities into Kenya’s program to improve maternal and neonatal health.

With additional funding provided through a grant awarded under Advancing Partners & Communities (APC), HealthRight International will integrate family planning (FP) services into their PMNH+ program. The initiative aims to improve quality, availability, and accessibility of MNC and FP services at the health facility, district health office, national ministry, and community levels. PMNH+ will focus on individuals of reproductive age marginalized due to socioeconomic status and geographic barriers in the districts of Marakwet East and West.

HealthRight International addresses health and social challenges aggravated by human rights violations for key populations worldwide. The organization focuses on issues related to HIV/AIDS, women’s health, malaria, tuberculosis, orphans and other vulnerable youth (OVC), and other individuals affected by human rights violations. HealthRight International’s Partnership for Maternal and Neonatal Health Plus (PMNH+) program was launched in 2012 under USAID’s Child Survival and Health Grant Program (CSHGP) to improve child survival and maternal health across Kenya.

Brief

This brief summarizes recommendations for reducing gender-related barriers to microbicide access and use, based on analyses in Kenya and South Africa.

Journal Article

This journal article’s objective is to evaluate the acceptability, information access, and potential behavioral impact of providing contraception information via text message on mobile phones to young people in Kenya.

Brief

This research brief’s purpose is to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and potential behavioral impact of providing contraceptive information via text message on mobile phones in Kenya and Tanzania.

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