Institutionalizing Community Health Services in Kenya: A Policy and Practice Journey.

The process of institutionalizing community health services in Kenya required strong leadership by the Ministry of Health, effective coordination and support of stakeholders, and alignment of community health with the political priorities at the national and decentralized government levels to facilitate adequate prioritization and financing of the community health strategy.

Epidemiology of syphilis in Kenya: results from a nationally representative serological survey.

Objectives: The authors used data from the Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey (KAIS) 2007 to determine the prevalence of syphilis and associated risk factors among adults aged 15-64 years.

Methods: KAIS was a nationally representative population-based sero-survey that examined demographic and behavioural indicators and serological testing for syphilis, HIV and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) in adults aged 15-64 years. The authors analysed data from 8935 women and 6727 men with complete syphilis results.

Improving national data collection systems from voluntary counselling and testing centres in Kenya.

Problem: Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) data from the registered sites in Kenya have been fraught with challenges, leading to insufficient statistics in the national office for planning purposes. An exercise was carried out to determine the barriers to the flow of data in VCT sites in Kenya.

Approach: A record-based survey was conducted at 332 VCT sites in Kenya.