National Strategic Framework
Status
Completed for the period 2000-2005.

• HIV/AIDS recognized as national threat to poverty alleviation and economic recovery strategies.
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Plan (PRSP) (2002) has references to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
• National Development Plan 2003-2007.

Ministry of Health
Contact person: Dr. Hezron O. Nyangito, permanent secretary
P.O. Box 30016
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +20 27 17 077
Fax: + 20 27 23 234

National AIDS and STD Control Programme (NASCOP):
Tel: +254 2 555 977

National AIDS Control Council
Contact person: Dr Patrick Orege
P.O. Box 61307
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 202 711 261
Fax: +254 202 711 072

HIV/AIDS Organisations:

1. National AIDS Control Council
   Contact person: Prof. Alloys Orago, director
   P.O. Box 61307-00200
   Nairobi, Kenya
   Tel: +20 271 51 09 or 271 12 61
   Fax: +20 271 12 31

2. AIDSETI, Kenya
   Contact person: Dorothy Onyango
   Nairobi, Kenya
   Tel: +254 02 217 039
   E-mail: [email protected]

3. ActionAid Kenya
   Kenya Head Office - Nairobi
   2nd Floor AACC Building, Waiyaki Way,
   P.O. Box 42814
   00100 Nairobi, Kenya
   Tel: +254 020 444 0440/4/9
   Fax: +254 020 444 5843
   E-mail: [email protected]
   Website: www.actionaid.org

4. African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)
   Contact person: Daraus Bukenya
   P.O. Box 30125, Nairobi
   Tel: +254 20 699 300
   Fax: +254 20 606 340
   E-mail: [email protected]
   Website: www.kenya.amref.org
   · Control of HIV, TB and STIs, clinical outreach services, development of health learning materials, training and undertaking of consultancies.
5. The Association of People with AIDS in Kenya, (TAPWAK)
   Contact person: Rowlands G. Lenya
   P.O. Box 30583-00100
   G.P.O. Nairobi, Kenya
   Tel/Fax: +254 20 603 421
   E-mail: [email protected]
   · Education; training; counselling; formation of AIDS Club in schools; income generating activities for women; orphan support; day care programmes and distribution of education materials.
6. Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS)
   Contact person: Aloys Ilinigumugabo
   P.O. Box 60054
   00200 Nairobi, Kenya
   Tel: +254 20 4 448 618
   Fax: +254 20 4 448 621
   E-mail: [email protected]
   Website: www.cafs.org
   · Skills and capacity building in reproductive health; training; technical assistance; networking; partnership development for sharing information and enhancing collaboration; conference and consultancy services; research.
7. Eastern and Southern Africa Counselling Association (ESACA)
   Contact person: D.H. Balmer
   P.O. Box 39086
   Nairobi, Kenya
   Tel: +254 2 786 310 / +254 2 796 283
   Fax: +254 2 786 310
   E-mail: [email protected]
   Website: www.esaca.or.ke
   · Promotes networking; coordination of standards of counselling; workshops; training; capacity building of counsellors.
8. Family Health International (FHI)
   HIV/AIDS Prevention & Care Dept.
   Contact person: John McWilliam
   P.O. Box 38835
   Nairobi, Kenya
   Tel: +254 20 713 911/9
   Fax: +254 20 726 130
   E-mail: [email protected]
   Website: www.fhi.org
   · Research studies; capacity building; prevention programmes; training and education of country researchers, service providers, programme managers and health communicators; scientific publishing; information dissemination.
9. Global Network Of People Living With HIV/AIDS (GNP+)
   African Secretariat NAP+
   Contact person: Michael Angaga
   P.O. Box 30218
   Nairobi, Kenya
   Tel: +254 2 228 776
   Fax: +254 2 251 324
   E-mail: [email protected]
   Website: www.naprap.org

10. Grace Centre International
    Contact person: Julius Murang€™a Gichure
    Dept of Health and Medicine, HIV/AIDS
    P.O. Box 2682
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 722 834 712
    Fax: +254 20 317 617
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.intergrance.freeservers.com
    · HIV/AIDS care and support; empowerment of PWAs and orphans; advocacy; awareness and prevention; stigma and discrimination reduction; VCT and counselling.
11. International Community for the Relief of Starvation and Suffering (ICROSS-KENYA)
    HIV/AIDS Unit
    Contact person: W Nyambati
    P.O. Box 507, Ngong Hills
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 2 030 340 022/40189
    Mobile: +254 72 511 642
    Fax: +254 2 742 938
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.kenyaweb.com/icross
    · HIV education; prevention programmes for high risk groups; health clinics; training of health workers and home care for AIDS patients; aids orphans; applied operational epidemiology; cultural anthropology of AIDS; STD control through peer groups; capacity building.
12. Kenya AIDS And Drugs Alliance (KADA)
    P.O. Box 1876, 0200 City Square
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 20 315 524 / +254 20 217 660
    Fax: +254 20 248 390
    E-mail: [email protected]
    · Information and education forums on HIV treatments and herbal medicine; advocacy and lobbying for treatment access; awareness; counselling and testing; income generating projects; resources centre; home based care and hospital visits.
13. Kenya AIDS Intervention/Prevention Project Group (KAIPPG)
    Contact person: James A. Onyango
    Physical Address: Mosacco Plaza, Mumias
    P.O. Box 2448
    Kakamega 50100, Kenya
    Tel: +254 056 641 004
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.kaippg.org
    · Communities based projects, support for individuals and their families; rehabilitation of malnourished children; training of AIDS widows in proper nutrition and the care of vulnerable children; training of healthcare workers in home-based care for people living with AIDS.
14. Kenya AIDS NGO Consortium (KANCO)
    Contact person: Allan Ragi
    P.O. Box 69866-00400
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 202 717 664 / +254 202 715 008
    Fax: +254 202 714 837
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.kanco.org
    · Leading national HIV/AIDS network in Kenya; building capacity of civil society organizations to respond to HIV/AIDS; involvement in policy development and advocacy; grant making and grant management; provision of practical HIV/AIDS information and documentation of community responses; media and workplace education; prevention, care and support.
15. Kenya Aids Watch Institute (KAWI)
    Contact person: Edward Karanja
    P.O. Box 10013
    00100 GPO
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 2 726 083
    Fax: +254 2 726 613
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.kenyaaidsinstitute.org
    · Monitoring organization established to gather and disseminate objective information and critical analysis of the effectiveness and relevance of all the current and future anti-HIV/AIDS programmes.
16. Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church
    Contact person: Britt Thorell
    P.O. Box 54128
    002 00 Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 20 780 454
    Fax: +254 20 780 454
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.kelc.org.ke
    · Prevention; awareness; information; education; policy and strategic plan for HIV/AIDS work that puts the issue of AIDS on top of the church's agenda.
17. Kenya Network of Women with AIDS (KENWA)
    Contact person: Ms Asunta Wagura, executive director
    City Gate House, 2nd Floor
    Murang€™a Road
    P.O Box 10001-00100
    Nairobi
    Tel: +254 20 676 6677
    Fax: +254 20 676 0970
    Mobile: +254 72 267 7122
    · Advocacy; support; self-help; counselling.
18. Kenya Voluntary Women Rehabilitation Centre
    Contact person: Elizabeth N. Ngugi
    P.O. Box 21419
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 20 718 895
    Fax: +254 20 712 007
    E-mail: [email protected]
    · Education; counselling; prevention; advice; information; homecare; care of orphans; social and vocational training; credit facility for sex workers; care of child prostitutes and abused children.
19. Mathare Youth Sport Association
    Contact person: Peter Serry
    P.O. Box 69038
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 20 763 614
    Fax: +254 20 763 614
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.mysakenya.org
    · Education; advocacy; support services; training of peers educators; education directed to youth and people in the Mathare slums.
20. Network Of African People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAP+)
    Contact person: Michael Angaga
    P.O. Box 30218
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 2 228 776
    Fax: +254 2 312 888
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.naprap.org
    · Represents the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS; peer education; support and information services; lobbying for access to effective treatments and services.
21. Network of people with HIV/AIDS in Kenya (NEPHAK)
    Tel: +254 2 729 502/29
    Fax: +254 2 729 504
    E-mail: [email protected]

22. Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
    Contact person: Peter Mbae Njogu, programme co-ordinator
    P.O.Box 52802, Wilson Airport
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 20 608 283/608 284/608 508
    Fax: +254 20 608 511
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.nca.no
    · Support; advice; information; education; prevention.
23. Orphans Development Programme International
    Contact person: Kathleen Okatcha
    P.O. Box 66043
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 2 441 872 / +254 2 441 255
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: http://odpi.wertsoft.com
    · Promotes care and support for children living in difficult circumstances, their foster families and communities in Africa.
24. Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya (WOFAK)
    Tel: +254 020 273 0952
    Fax: +254 020 272 5455
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Website: www.wofak.org.ke

25. UNAIDS Country Co-ordinator
    Contact person: Erasmus Morah
    Block Q, Room 119
    UN Gigiri complex
    Nairobi
    E-mail: [email protected]

26. UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, Chair
    Contact person: Heimo Laakkonen, UNICEF
    UN Gigiri Complex
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel.: +254 20 622 045
    Fax: +254 20 621 093
    E-mail: [email protected]

Sources:
The Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
The World Bank
World Health Organization
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Country Profiles
United Nations Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2005. €œWorld Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision.€ New York.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

Source: WHO/UNAIDS epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2004 Update.
Email: [email protected]

Assessment of the epidemiological situation (2004)

In 2002, 34 antenatal care clinic sites participated in the HIV sentinel surveillance system. These sites were distributed all over the country and more than half of them were in rural areas. Sentinel surveillance is repeated annually, although only certain sites have been used consistently since the system was established in the late 1980s.

In 2002, the prevalence was 14.3% in urban areas and 6.3% outside urban areas. In 2002, the highest prevalence rate of 35% was reported in Suba, while in Bamba, Kalulumo and Kilifi the rate was 4%. HIV prevalence among women attending antenatal care clinics in Nairobi declined from 24.6% in 1995 to 14.7% in 1999, and to 14.4% in 2001. In Mombasa, HIV prevalence among women attending antenatal care clinics fluctuated between 12.2% and 16.3%, and was 14.2% in 2002. HIV prevalence in Kisumu has been fluctuating with the highest prevalence measured in 2000 (35.0%).

According to the population-based study in Kisumu in 1997/1998, young women were more likely to be infected than men of the same age. Among women aged 15-19 years, HIV prevalence was 23.0%, compared to 3.5% among men of the same age.

Recent DHS in 2003 found an overall prevalence of 6.7% with an increase in differences among urban (10%) versus rural residents (5.6%). As is the case in many African countries, HIV prevalence in Kenya is higher among women (8.7%), than among men 4.5%.