Kenya

Kenya: Four Stories from the Field

  • Source:
  • WASHplus. 2013.

  • Summary:
  • WASHplus is helping communities in Kenya make the connection between healthy hygiene habits and improved sanitation and positive outcomes for people living with HIV and AIDS and their families.

  • Keywords:
  • Evidence Base Handwashing (Hand Washing) People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal
  • Integrated HIV Testing, Malaria, and Diarrhea Prevention Campaign in Kenya: Modeled Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness

    • Source:
    • Kahn J, Muraguri N, Harris B. 2012. PLoS One, Feb 2012

    • Summary:
    • Efficiently delivered interventions to reduce HIV, malaria, and diarrhea are essential to accelerating global health efforts. A 2008 community-integrated prevention campaign in Western Province, Kenya, reached 47,000 individuals over seven days, providing HIV testing and counseling, water filters, insecticide-treated bed nets, condoms, and for HIV-infected individuals, cotrimoxazole prophylaxis and referral for ongoing care. The program modeled the potential cost-effectiveness of a scaled-up integrated prevention campaign. A mass, rapidly implemented campaign for HIV testing, safe water, and malaria control appears economically attractive.

  • Keywords:
  • Diarrheal Diseases Household Water Treatment & Storage Journal Articles Programming Guidance
  • WASH-HIV Integration Counseling Cards for Community Health Workers – Kenya

    • Source:
    • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, USAID and C-Change.

    • Summary:
    • Set of WASH-HIV integration counseling cards for community health workers in Kenya.

  • Keywords:
  • Community-Based Care Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage Job Aids Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • Kenya – WASH & HIV Materials

    • Source:
    • WASHplus.

    • Summary:
    • Links to training materials related to WASH & HIV Integration in Kenya.

  • Keywords:
  • Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage Job Aids Sanitation/Feces Disposal Training Resources
  • Community Health Workers in WASH-HIV Integration

    • Source:
    • Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation & C-Change/FHI 360. 2011.

    • Summary:
    • Community health workers (CHWs) — the core of the community strategy — are expected to mobilize and energize communities to take charge of their own health. The approach used in this Training Guide harnesses capacity for improving WASH practices by having CHWs negotiate small doable actions that individuals and families can take to improve their behavior incrementally while working toward an ideal practice. This approach is more likely to lead to sustained behavior change by ensuring that families identify feasible but effective actions that they can practice correctly and consistently, thereby improving the likelihood that the practice will be maintained over time. It also supports incremental change; once smaller successes are realized, families feel ready to take on bigger challenges.

  • Keywords:
  • Community-Based Care Diarrheal Diseases Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Training Resources
  • Independent Association of Hygiene, Socioeconomic Status, and Circumcision with Reduced Risk of HIV Infection Among Kenyan Men

    • Source:
    • Meier A et al. 2006. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 43 (1):117–118.

    • Summary:
    • Our study aimed to identify male and female risk factors (including genital hygiene practices) for bacterial vaginosis; in the course, we, unexpectedly, found male genital hygiene was associated with the man's risk of HIV infection. Because male HIV infection and male hygiene were found to be correlated with one another, we examined the relationship of five (5) hygiene variables with HIV infection in the men in a principal components analysis, controlling for socioeconomic status and other potential confounders. Assessing genital hygiene beliefs and practices in Kenyan men, we found male genital hygiene practices showed bathing genitalia immediately after sex was common, and this practice was associated with access to water, demonstrating the potential acceptability of such an intervention even in resource-poor settings.

  • Keywords:
  • Accessing Water Evidence Base Journal Articles
  • Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS: A Handbook for Community Health Workers

    • Source:
    • Colton T et al. 2006. Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS. A Handbook for Community Health Workers. Watertown, MA, Pathfinder International

    • Summary:
    • This curriculum draws on the experience of Pathfinder staff who put into practice a model of community home-based care (CHBC) in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda. Pathfinder’s CHBC model, piloted by COPHIA in Kenya, emphasizes community mobilization for prevention as well as participation in care and support for those affected by HIV/AIDS. In recent years, Pathfinder has integrated prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), family planning, and other reproductive health initiatives into its CHBC programs in Kenya and Tanzania.

  • Keywords:
  • Community-Based Care Home-Based Care People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) PMTCT (Preventing Mother to Child Trans.) Programming Guidance Training Resources
  • The Millennium Development Goal on Poverty and the Links with Water Supply, Sanitation, Hygiene and HIV/AIDS: A Case Study from Kenya

    • Source:
    • Kiongo JM. 2005. Delft, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.

    • Summary:
    • A case study on water supply and sanitation conditions and policies in Kenya in the context of the Millennium Development Goals and HIV/AIDS . The study aims to facilitate learning on how HIV/AIDS affects the water and sanitation sector, and how administrators and policy makers may respond to, and cope with the effects of the disease. It provides an overview of water sector conditions and policies in Kenya in the light of Millennium Development Goals; insights into the relationship of these goals and their realization with the broader context of poverty, water resources conditions and management, and HIV/AIDS; illustrations of the influence of the epidemics on attitudes and coping strategies with examples of community and agency/project experiences; and lessons and recommendations on how administrators, policy makers, and donors can better cope with the disease and its implications for the water sectors.

  • Keywords:
  • Accessing Water Best Practices and Lessons Learned Evidence Base Handwashing (Hand Washing) Policy Sanitation/Feces Disposal