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HIV Prevention and Care for the Youth - (HIPACY)

last updated Sep 27, 2011

Overview

Implementing organization: 
HOPE worldwide Kenya (HWWK)
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2004
Stage: 
No longer active
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
European Commission, GOKenya, USAID

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
10-49
Summary: 

The program started as a Youth program targeting young people in the Mukuru slums and has grown to a comprehensive and nationwide program that continues to reach youth, most at risk populations and other under served communities using various HIV/AIDS prevention strategies. The program design addresses the behavioral determinants of health to improve on interventions so as to improve the target population’s health seeking behaviors.

Program goals/rationale: 

The program's strategic objectives are to increase access to HIV Testing and Counseling (HTC) as well as to teach abstinence and being faithful to sexual partners, in addition to promoting the use of condoms and other preventions.

Key program components: 

HOPE worldwide Kenya (HWWK) has adopted new strategies in HIV prevention in line with emerging national and international trends. Two most notable developments are the implementation of evidence based interventions (EBIs) and the increased focus on combination prevention approaches.

Already HWWK staff have been trained in a number of EBIs including prevention among people living with HIV also known as Prevention with Positives (PWP) and Healthy Choices I & II and are reaching clients with these interventions.

The organization is also rolling out the Families Matter! Program (FMP) through which parents of 9-12 year old's are trained on how to effectively communicate with their children on sexual reproductive health. Healthy Choices is an intervention that targets youth aged 10-17 years with appropriate HIV prevention messages.

Program history: 

HOPE worldwide Kenya is a faith-based Non Governmental Organization registered in 1999. The official launch of Programs was in February 2003 by the then U.S. ambassador to Kenya, His Excellency Johnnie Carson, and Joe Aketch, His Worship the mayor of Nairobi City at the time, in Mukuru slums. The work of HWWK focuses on hard-to-reach and most-at-risk populations, orphaned and vulnerable children, youth, poor communities and the general public to improve their quality of life through responsive and innovative health programming, service delivery and capacity building in Kenya and Eastern Africa.

They are affiliated with HOPE worldwide Ltd, headquartered in Philadelphia, USA, a faith-based relief and development organization serving more than 2 million needy people annually on all six continents.

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