HIV PREVENTION

Through its Sex Workers Outreach Program (SWOP), PHDA provides HIV Prevention services to over 50000 Female Sex Workers and Over 3000 Male Sex workers, Men who have sex with men within Nairobi County and its Environs. These Services Include;

. Outreach activities
. Peer Education
. Risk reduction counselling
. Promotion, demonstration and distribution of condoms and lubricants
. Services to Injecting Drug Users (IDUs)

HIV TREATMENT & CARE

Through SWOP, PHDA provides comprehensive and coordinated HIV primary care and treatment services to HIV-positive adults, adolescents and children.We offer the services listed below;

  • HIV health care for children and adults
  • Free HIV counseling and testing nutrition services,
  • Patient education
  • Medical care management
  • Facilitate referrals for substance abuse, treatment and special medical care

COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING

As an off shoot of our efforts we have assisted the community register and manage local CBO’s and NGO’s among them Hoymas (http://www.hoymas.or.ke/), Bar Hostess (http://bhesp.org/), SWOP Ambassadors among other. PHDA also supports our Key populations access alternative livelihoods by providing training and supporting income generating activities among the Key population through the SWOP program . The community training and involvement offered include;

  • Sister to Sister
  • Peer Educator
  • Community Positive Health, Dignity and Prevention
  • Advocacy

The community has also been involved in research, formulating research policies a case of study the ongoing TRUST study (http://www.phdaf.org/new/trust/) and overseeing ethical research among themselves by forming Community Advisory boards. 

RESEARCH

A wide spectrum of STI and HIV-related research has been supported by the Government of Canada through its Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC); the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH); the World Health Organization; the Rockefeller Foundation; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Some of the ground-breaking achievements of the research team include:

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)

The team pioneered the “syndromic approach” to STI management which has led to a 25-40 percent decrease in STIs in the general population, and this approach has been disseminated to countries such as Uganda, Cambodia, Thailand and India.

Male Circumcision

Male circumcision is an effective prevention of the HIV virus acquisition in men. The team’s work over 20 years culminated in a major randomized clinical trial conducted in Kenya, led by the University of Manitoba, the University of Illinois Chicago and the University of Nairobi which showed that male circumcision confers a 60% reduction in risk for acquiring HIV infection among men. The results were published in 2007, and Time magazine identified “male circumcision to prevent HIV” as the most important medical breakthroughs of the year. As a result, male circumcision has been endorsed as an important HIV prevention measure by UNAIDS and WHO, and programs to expand male circumcision services have been developed throughout Eastern and Southern Africa.

HIV resistance for highly HIV-exposed female sex workers

The identification of highly HIV-exposed FSWs who are resistant to HIV infection and the subsequent understanding of acquired immunity to HIV. Perhaps the most widely known scientific contribution from the research team has been the discovery that a proportion of female sex workers are resistant to HIV infection

OTHER SERVICES

Technical Support Services Key Populations Technical Support Unit

This project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) through the University of Manitoba. It’s a collaborative project with the National Aids Control Council (NACC) and the Ministry of Health through the National AIDS and STI Control Program (NASCOP).
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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Technical Support Unit

Despite male circumcision playing an important role in slowing the spread of HIV, facility mapping by the VMMC TSU found that out of 1,497 facilities in five priority countries, only 215 facilities (14%) provide VMMC services. The VMMC TSU aims to increase the availability and acceptance of VMMC by integrating VMMC into the nation’s health systems. Read More

Technical Support to the Linkages across the Continuum of HIV Services for Key Populations Affected by HIV Project, Also Known as LINKAGES

LINKAGES aims to accelerate the ability of governments, key-population-led civil society organisations, and private-sector providers to plan, deliver, and optimize comprehensive HIV prevention, care, and treatment services to reduce HIV transmission among key populations and to help those who are HIV positive live longer. Read More

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TELEPHONE
+254 20 265 4719 or
+254 20 210 1155

 

Adrress
P.O Box 3737-00506, Nairobi, Kenya

 

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