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HealthRight

last updated Oct 18, 2011

Overview

Implementation Partner(s): 
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kenya, Population Services International, the Kenya NGO Alliance Against Malaria, and private health facilities
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2009
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
Population Services International

Scale

Other Measures of Scale: 
Over 1,000 Community Health Workers (CHWs) trained
Summary: 

HealthRight is working to build the capacity of the local community and health system to promote healthy care seeking behaviors, improve service delivery, and increase access to insecticide-treated nets in the five districts of West Pokot, North Pokot, Central Pokot, Trans Nzoia East, and Marakwet.

Program goals/rationale: 

Malaria is the leading killer of children and pregnant women in Kenya, where poverty, poor prevention practices, costly care, and insufficient drug supplies have propelled the disease to endemic and epidemic proportions.

Key program components: 

HealthRight is working to spread important malaria messages through a range of channels:

  • Provider training: Over 1,000 Community Health Workers (CHWs) are being trained to spread prevention and care-seeking messages at the household level, including training pharmacists to deliver messages to customers and awarding grants to local organizations to design social behavioral change campaigns.

  • Increasing distribution of insecticide treated nets: HealthRight is distributing bed nets to health care facilities, specifically targeting children and pregnant women. HealthRight also supports CHWs to visit individual households and promote proper usage of nets.

  • Delivering malaria prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services: HealthRight is helping DHMTs to train, monitor, and mentor health care providers at hospitals, health centers and dispensaries. HealthRight also aids facilities to improve drug management and inventory control and update data management systems. In high-risk districts such as West Pokot, which suffered two malaria epidemics in 2008, HealthRight is establishing surveillance systems and epidemic preparedness plans.

In 2007, less than 50 percent of homes in Kenya had long-lasting insecticide treated nets. HealthRight is distributing bed nets to health care facilities, specifically targeting children and pregnant women. Over three years, the project aims to reach over 500,000 children, pregnant women, and people living in poverty or with HIV/AIDS.

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