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This book of abstracts presents best practices from the USAID Nuru Ya Mtoto project's first "Best Practice Sharing and Learning Forum" held August 20-22, 2024, in Kisumu, Kisumu County, Kenya. It highlights strategies for comprehensive HIV prevention, collaboration, cross-learning, and improved service delivery, emphasizing the role of local government ownership and multi-sector engagement in HIV prevention, care and treatment service delivery.The five-year USAID Nuru Ya Mtoto project, funded by PEPFAR, is implemented by a PATH Kenya-led consortium of non-governmental organizations in partnership with county governments and local organizations in Kakamega, Homa Bay, Kisumu, Migori, Kisii, Nyamira, and Vihiga. The project supports the Government of Kenya's HIV and AIDS response by providing and scaling up services for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) through the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) initiative.

PATH endeavors to use small businesses, minority-owned firms, and women’s business enterprises in our business transactions whenever possible and practical. This fact sheet details PATH's actions to further these goals.

This document is intended as a how-to implementation guide for providing oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) via online pharmacy service delivery (ePrEP/ePEP) based on learnings and evidence from the ePrEP Kenya pilot study that ran from October 2022 through July 2024.The guide was developed to support ministries of health and their partners as they develop strategies for HIV prevention services—specifically, ePrEP and ePEP delivery through a telehealth and online pharmacy model. It outlines a suggested approach that can be tailored based on epidemiological, social, economic, health systems, and policy contexts. Service delivery partners should exercise flexibility and adapt these recommendations and tools to their specific contexts, available resources, and infrastructure.

Kenya’s Health NGOs Network (HENNET) is a network of over 100 civil society organizations (CSOs) working in health across all 47 counties in Kenya. HENNET coordinates and promotes the engagement of these CSOs to advocate for advancements in health policy.A member of HENNET since its inception, in 2019, PATH began providing consistent, strategic advocacy technical support to HENNET to increase its effectiveness by strengthening the network’s technical capacities, partnership management, operational functions, and financial management systems. Through PATH’s support, HENNET has increased its visibility and presence across critical health decision-making tables, contributed to and influenced key policy decisions, and strengthened its position as the national convener of health CSOs in Kenya.This brief details our partnership with HENNET to strengthen their capacity as part of our approach to driving sustainable policy change.

Since 2016, PATH has supported the Kakamega County Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Civil Society Organizations Alliance (MNCH CSO Alliance) to advocate with local policymakers to advance the health of women and children in Kakamega.With Kenya’s devolved system of government bringing power and decision-making closer to the people, PATH recognized an opportunity to enable local partners to lead advocacy efforts and demand accountability from their own governments. Beginning in 2019, we took steps to transition leadership of the Alliance to a locally led organization that continues to lead the group today.Over the past several years, the Alliance has been instrumental in strengthening the MNCH policy landscape in the county. This brief details how PATH worked with the Alliance to strengthen their capacity to conduct key advocacy activities that have resulted in tangible improvements to the health system.