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Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. A short summary of this paper. One benefit of this isolation was that their traditional Islamic practices, nomadic pastoral lifestyle, and remote location kept them relatively untouched by the HIV epidemic affecting the rest of the country.
But in recent years, new technology such as mobile phones, increasing road traffic between provinces, shifting cultural practices and norms, and population changes are working together to change the way all Kenyans interact, including the residents of NEP. Correcting myths and misconceptions about HIV can empower and protect In , just one bus traveled between Nairobi the garissa district at a glance young people. Though anecdotal evidence indicated strategies and messages. Results It is clear from the data gathered in this assessment that the sexual behaviors of key populations in Garissa are comparable to other areas of Kenya and do indeed put them and their sexual partners at risk of contracting HIV.
Risky behaviors such as concurrent relationships, commercial sex, transactional sex, intergenerational sex, and drug and alcohol use were reportedly practiced among the groups interviewed. Analysis of the data showed no particular socioeconomic pattern among the most-at-risk individuals.
They are scattered throughout both the urban and peri-urban areas of Garissa and include university graduates and men and women with no education, students, civil servants, business people, day laborers, and the un- employed. The diversity of most-at-risk groups means Chill Clubs, groups of secondary school students guided by respected youth leaders, are important entry points for teaching youth how to protect themselves from HIV. All respondents Garissa.
Though 52 percent of the total sample named were between years old, and were split evenly unprotected sex as a transmission route, over 80 between males and females.
Over 25 with two groups of secondary school boys and girls percent named kissing and road accidents as HIV in Garissa. Just 23 percent of the sample It is important to note that interviewees were selected only reported correct transmission routes when because they were perceived to belong to a key asked how HIV could be transmitted. It is spreading HIV because between their knowledge of prevention methods and an infected person could claim to use a condom but in fact their use of them.
There may also be a question of damage it to deliberately infect the sexual partner. I just tell the people the testing behavior of this group. About a at moderate or high risk of becoming infected. When third of the men and a quarter of the women reported asked their reasons for their responses, the men largely consistent use of condoms as a way to prevent HIV felt they were at little or no risk as they either abstain transmission.
Eleven percent of women say requiring a 22 percent , have only one partner 24 percent , or partner to take a test is a strategy. Over 50 percent of always use a condom 18 percent. That's why Pathfinder is finding innovative ways to reach Kenyans with care they need. Through initiatives like mHMtaani , we capitalize on the power of mobile technology by equipping community health workers with mobile apps that serve as powerful case management tools to support national maternal and child health goals.
Community health workers help Pathfinder's work go further. As natives of the communities in which they work, these workers foster trust and build relationships with their clients with a greater understanding of local tradition and values. Kenya has a long history of providing some of the most successful family planning programs in Africa.
This unmet need for family planning results in demand for services and access to contraceptives, placing tremendous strain on government health systems. These systems are already stretched to meet the needs of the country's population of people living with HIV and AIDS, which is the fourth largest in the world. Pathfinder has supported reproductive health and family planning work in Kenya since Today, Pathfinder integrates HIV and AIDS prevention and care with quality reproductive health and family planning activities, bringing health services to the most vulnerable women who are least likely to have access to quality care.
Pathfinder also supports the development of sustainable health systems to ensure equitable access to a wide range of health services. APHIAplus builds capacity of managers, health care providers, and community health workers. Through our activities, Pathfinder is promoting sexual and reproductive health care among women, men, adolescents, as well as key populations such as orphaned and vulnerable children, men who have sex with men, intravenous drug users, and sex workers.
The ultimate goal is to ensure access to readily accessible, equitable, and quality health services for all people in Kenya. Total Fertility Rate - The average number of children that would be born alive to a woman or group of women during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year.
This rate is sometimes stated as the number of children women are having today. Contraceptive Prevalence - Contraceptive Use Among Married Women , using modern and traditional methods, expressed as a percent. Infant Mortality Rate - The number of deaths of infants under age 1 per 1, live births in a given year.
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