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Afya Kenya Foundation

last updated Feb 24, 2012

Overview

Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Donor, In-kind contributions
Funders: 
Charleston Travel Ltd., Lions Club Kenya, Lords Healthcare Ltd., SDA Church, Three Pyramids Pharmaceuticals, University of Nairobi

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
10-49
Number of Clients Served: 
3,316 women received breast cancer screenings between Oct 2009 and Oct 2010; 20,000 children dewormed; 10,500 young Kenyans received voluntary counseling and testing for HIV
Summary: 

Afya Kenya Foundation is a registered charitable trust organization based in Nairobi, Kenya that seeks to provide quality health care to the rural and urban poor through free community health outreach camps. It was set up by student doctors who saw the need for such an initiative in the course of their apprenticeship.

Key program components: 

Afya Kenya Foundation has organized, financed and conducted several Medical Camps. Its inaugural outreach camp was in January in Mvita, Coast Province. Free medical services were provided to an estimated 1,500 peasants. In this particular camp, the Foundation offered a wide range of services such as screening, diagnosis and treatment of basic diseases, public health education, voluntary counseling and testing, and provision of free medicine.

The Foundation followed its inaugural camp with Medial Camps in the following areas:

  • Kajiado: 1,200 people – funded by Lions Club Kenya and Charleston Travel Ltd.
  • Kitui West, 2,300 people – funded by the SDA Church and Lords Healthcare Ltd.
  • Kiambu: 1,800 people – funded by the University of Nairobi and Three Pyramids Pharmaceuticals.
  • Tigoni: 900 people – funded by the Afya Kenya Foundation.
  • Murang’a: 1,000 people – funded by Lions Club Kenya and Charleston Travel Ltd.
  • Pangani: 1,000 people – funded by the Afya Kenya Foundation.

Broadly, the program's activities are as follows:

Public Education

  • Educating Mothers on the Role of Breastfeeding and Immunization
  • Educating communities on safe hygiene practice, nutrition, water and sanitation

Health Interventions

  • Improving immunization coverage and nutritional status among the rural and urban poor
  • Providing insecticide treated nets (ITN)
  • Setting up screening programs for common diseases and malignancies, such as breast cancer, cervical cancer and tuberculosis
  • De-worming of all children of school going age
  • Providing ante-natal clinic services for expectant mothers
  • Offering voluntary counseling and testing services for HIV/AIDS
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