The ground-breaking work conducted by PHDA and its partners has had an impact in Kenya.

PHDA and the University of Manitoba, have implemented programmes for more than three decades. The team was among the first to initiate HIV prevention and treatment programmes with sex workers in Kenya. Some of the ground-breaking work conducted by PHDA, the University of Manitoba (UoM), and its partners has had an impact on programme and policy in Kenya and other counties.

Some key learnings include

The need for high coverage of key populations with comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment programmes to prevent acquisition and transmission of HIV. The SWOP clinics established by UoM and PHDA, being one of the first large scale programmes in Africa (reaching more than 35,000 sex workers), improved the country and the continent’s understating of how to scale up programmes with key populations.

The feasibility of integration of HIV self-testing within existing HIV prevention and treatment programmes managed by the MSM led community organizations was established through the PHDA led programmes. This also included estimating the size of undiagnosed MSM and the testing approaches to reach MSM using virtual platforms.

Summary of Programme Delivery Projects

Resources

Vulnerability Revisited: Leaving No One behind in Research. Doris Schroeder, Kate Chatfield, Roger Chennells, Hazel Partington, Joshua Kimani (PHDA), Gillian Thomson, Joyce Adhiambo Odhiambo (PHDA), Leana Snyders, Collin Louw.  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-57896-0

A film on Polling Booth Survey has been developed to describe the method. The film can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqZfROSklqA&t=3s

Joshua Kimani et al. (2020). The effects of COVID-19 on the health and socio-economic security of sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya: Emerging intersections with HIV, Global Public Health, 15:7, 1073-1082, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1770831 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17441692.2020.1770831?needAccess=true&

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