Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI)

Programs

Kibera Community Integrated Health Programme

last updated Jul 10, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
AMREF
Implementation Partner(s): 
MOH (NASCOP)
Legal Status: 
Public-private partnership
Year Launched: 
1998
Stage: 
Existing/expansion stage
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Additional Source(s) of Funding: 
Government

Scale

Personnel Employed: 
10-49
Number of Clients Served: 
enrolled over 6,000 patients for care in the programme with more than 3,000 having started ARVs treatment in the three facilities
Number of Facilities Operated/Networked: 
1 Health Facility Committee (HFC), 4 community units, 4 Community Health Committees (CHC)
Summary: 

Kibera Community Integrated Health Programme has been working in Kibera since 1998 and uses an integrated approach to address issues on comprehensive care for: people living with HIV; maternal, newborn, and child health; as well as Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Education (PHASE).

Program goals/rationale: 

The community is plagued by high levels of poverty, insecurity, underdevelopment and inadequate access to basic social services. These include basic health care, education, water and sanitation, inaccessibility due to poor roads and inadequate involvement of the government in provision of essential utilities and services. This program aims to target and alleviate some of the pain associated with these issues.

Key program components: 

This program supports a static health facility that provides outpatient services to children and adults and a 24-hour inpatient maternity service. The clinic also runs an anti retroviral treatment (ART) program that provides care and treatment for HIV/AIDS and TB patients and has strengthened laboratory facilities through provision of essential equipment and supplies, support to equipment maintenance, training, supportive supervision, and regular quality assurance monitoring.

They have improved quality assurance and quality control through training and retraining of health workers, ensuring routine supportive supervision, and providing equipment and supplies, thus reducing the HIV infection rate among children born to women living with HIV. This was due to early intervention at the antenatal clinic, ART clinic, increased hospital deliveries and ART prophylaxis for mother and baby - done by encouraging the increased usage of maternity, family planning, ante/postnatal and child health care.

Hide this

Need help?

Using the CHMI Programs Database

  • Browse: Browse the database by applying one or more filters to narrow your search by characteristics. Click the "x" to remove any of the filters you've selected. Click "reset search" to remove all filters and start over.
  • Search: Search the database for a specific program by typing a name or keyword into the search box.
  • Add: If the program you're looking for is not in the CHMI database, submit the program to the CHMI pipeline by clicking here to add a program profile.
  • Update: If you notice incorrect or outdated information, or would like to help complete a profile for a CHMI pipeline program, request a change by clicking here, or at the top of the program profile.

Have a question? Check the FAQs first. Don’t see your question? Contact us.