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Kageno Health Program

last updated Feb 21, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Kageno Worldwide, Inc.
Implementation Partner(s): 
Partners in Health, Care Kenya, Centers for Disease Control, Dreyfus Health Foundation Problem Solving for Better Health Project, Kenya/Rwanda Ministry of Health
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2003
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%, 20-60% (lower to lower-middle)

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Government, In-kind contributions
Funders: 
UNDP PEPRA, USAID

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
100<
Number of Clients Served: 
6500 people
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
2
Other Measures of Scale: 
In 2011, Kageno Kenya hosted a 3-day World AIDS Day celebration attended by upwards of 3500 people. In partnership with VCT, 41 men received voluntary circumcision, 79 couples were tested for HIV and 103 youths were also tested.
Replication: 
In 2011 and beyond, Kageno will center its work in Rwanda, where a replication of the Kenya project is well underway, and begin work to establish other projects in East Africa, South east Asia, and Latin America.
Scope: 
Kageno's efforts in Rwanda have proven to be very successful in that the clinic will now have a gynecological table, two new scales, and a new microscope.They will also expand the scope of the clinic beyond a "post de santé" to include a laboratory, maternity center, acute dentistry and social services. In Kenya, funds have been provided to construct another health center to serve the Nyakweri beach community. The center is currently under construction and is expected to open in the spring of 2011.
Summary: 

Kageno health program increases the capacity of communities to deliver quality health services.This project operates in both Kenya and Rwanda, and places a special emphasis on mothers and children, who are often the most vulnerable to disease and malnutrition.

Program goals/rationale: 

The Kageno health program aims at increasing the capacity of communities to deliver quality health services where they offer clinical services, HIV/AID kits and work to train local volunteers to become counselors, mentors, and monitors of community health. A majority emphasis of care is placed on children and mothers who are more vulnerable.

Key program components: 

Kageno is a non profit organization that aims to transform impoverished communities into places of opportunity and hope – through the development of self-sustaining community directed programs. The health program is among the many that increases the capacity of communities to deliver quality health services. The program operates two clinics in Rwanda and another in Kenya, where they offer clinical services and work to train local volunteers to become community health workers (CHK). The project places special emphasis on mothers and children, who often are the most vulnerable to disease and malnutrition.

In addition to delivering health services, it offers HIV/AIDS programs that provides information and services that stress prevention, detection, and treatment of HIV/AIDS (and other STDs), while also addressing the underlying factors that lead people to make choices that put them at risk of infection.

It also operates Voluntary Counseling and Testing (vct) centers in both Kenya and Rwanda. These centers not only provide access to counseling, testing, condoms,and antiretroviral treatment, but they also support those affected by HIV/AIDS by training local volunteers to become counselors, mentors, and monitors of community health. These efforts are linked with other Kageno programs, including an Orphan Assistance and Sponsorship Program that provides help for communities struggling to care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Kageno's efforts in Rwanda have proven to be very successful in that the clinic will now have a gynecological table, two new scales, and a new microscope.They will also expand the scope of the clinic beyond a "post de santé" to include a laboratory, maternity center, acute dentistry and social services.

In Kenya funds have been provided to construct another health center to serve the Nyakweri beach community. The center is currently under construction and is expected to open in the spring 2011.

Program history: 

Kageno, meaning "A Place of Hope" in a Kenyan dialect, is a registered 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization that began its work in Kenya in 2003,when most of the population had no access to AIDS testing, or to any health care facility and endemic disease (including parasites, worms, malaria, and malnutrition) was rampant.

In June 2008, Kageno Co-founder began replicating the Kenyan project and its methodologies in the community of Banda,Rangiro Sector, and Nyamasheke District in Rwanda. The community was prone to a myriad of problems related to extreme poverty and Rwanda’s legacy of war and genocide. There was no access to clean drinking water, HIV/AIDS was spreading rapidly, and women and children suffered disproportionately as the number of AIDS orphans increased and local women struggled to find the means to care for them with no access to any health care facility.

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