Population Services Kenya (PS Kenya) works with the neediest communities in hard to reach areas. Kilifi is a coastal county with the highest number of teenage pregnancies in Kenya at 21.8%. Due to early pregnancies, many girls are forced to cut short their dreams and aspirations to take care of their children. PS Kenya has...Read More
Art is an effective tool capable of transferring knowledge, creating memories, inspiring, activating and sustaining healthy behaviors. Targeting men, women, and youth, the Accelerate program appreciates art as a tool that can easily influence the adoption of healthy behaviors and practices. The Accelerate program supported this year’s Heart 4 Art Festival and Awards Event, an...Read More
Kenya has made strides in increasing its modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) and sustaining demand, but is still faced with a challenge of increasing use in counties with low contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) and sustaining use among counties with high contraceptive prevalence rate. With an aim to increase access to, and use of, modern contraceptives...Read More
PS Kenya marked the annual NGO week by exhibiting at the annual NGO week event held between the 14th and 18th March 2022 at the KICC grounds, Nairobi. The event was organized by the NGO Coordination Board with this year’s theme being, ‘Celebrating NGOs Adaptation, Innovation and Resilience in a Global Pandemic’. This year’s theme...Read More
In 2020, breast cancer reported 2.3 million new cases and 685,000 deaths globally, making it one of the world’s most prevalent type of cancer (WHO). In Kenya, breast cancer registered 5,985 new cases and accounted for 9.2 % of all cancer deaths, making it the third leading cause of all registered deaths due to cancer...Read More
Marked annually on March 8th, International Women’s Day is a global event set to commemorate the social, political, and economic achievements of women. Under this year’s theme “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”, PS Kenya joined the County Government of Kajiado and partners to mark this year’s celebration at Isara, Kajiado East, Kajiado County....Read More
Advancing Women’s Health in Kenya In Kenya, and Africa at large, women play a critical role within their families. They are life givers, mothers, peacemakers, business owners, and caregivers for children and the elderly. However, they bear a disproportionately large share of the global disease of burden and death. They are more likely to die...Read More
WHO introduced HIV self-testing in order to improve access and improve knowledge of ones’ HIV status for individuals/subpopulations not reached by conventional HIV Testing Services (HTS), timely diagnosis and uptake of antiretroviral therapy (ART), while also averting new infections through reduced transmission. Knowledge of HIV status is critical to entry and initiation of lifelong ART...Read More
PS Kenya through the Accelerate program hosted a team from the Danish Embassy ( DANIDA) in Kenya led by the Ambassador, Ole Thonke. The team visited Mathare slums where they got a chance to interact with beneficiaries and appreciate how the program is contributing towards access to quality sexual and reproductive health services (SRHR), prevention,...Read More
