In order to enhance the collaboration between PEPFAR and the UN System this UNAIDS project will provide support to the UN system to hire four technical support staff over a three-year period in order to contribute towards optimal effectiveness and sustainability of HIV work in Kenya.

The UN, through the UN-Kenya Joint Program of Support on AIDS aims to strengthen the country-level response through translation of international guidance and best practices into locally meaningful and standardized programs. The support from PEPFAR will thus strengthen the ability of the Joint UN Program on AIDS to provide high level technical support in the national response. This will be achieved through strengthening of the UN system's role and engagement in advancing the deeply shared targets and principles contained in the newly signed Partnership Framework Agreement between the Government of Kenya and the United States Government (2009-13) to support implementation of the Kenya national response on AIDS as articulated in KNASP III.

The four strategic positions within the Joint program will support NACC and NASCOP in their respective roles in the national response as follows: Senior HIV prevention advisor, PMTCT Officer, MARPs Officer and an ART Surveillance, and Monitoring and Quantification Officer. With the technical support, the UN system in Kenya is expected to deepen and enhance its partnership and working relations on HIV with both the USG and Government of Kenya.

Specifically, the IM will to contribute towards the following selected four goals of the USG-GOK Partnership Framework: Reduced HIV incidence through increased capacity of Kenyan facilities and providers to deliver more effective and better integrated prevention programs, including evidence-based approaches promoting character formation and abstinence among youth as well as fidelity, partner reduction, and correct and consistent condom use by sexually active persons; proven behavioral interventions optimally targeted to the sources of new infections and those most at risk; greatly increased HIV testing and counseling such that at least 80 percent of Kenyan adults know their status; greatly increased availability of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for sexually active adult males, and 100 percent coverage of PMTCT in all public and mission health facilities offering antenatal care (ANC) with more efficacious regimens and improved program quality to reach 80 percent of women who attend at least one antenatal visit, and new community outreach programs developed to provide PMTCT services to at least 50 percent of women who do not attend ANC.

The UNAIDS project will also help build capacity of Kenyan facilities and providers to deliver quality HIV treatment with ARVs expanded to reach at least 80 percent of the population in need, based on current ART guidelines. It will contribute to increase in GOK health commodity projection, procurement, warehousing, and distribution systems from mutually-agreed baselines and in a manner that builds on Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold Program. In addition it will contribute to increased capacity of Kenyan facilities to collect and report routine program data so as to continuously inform programming as well as operational and strategic planning.

The project will expressly pursue and promote the following shared principles of collaboration that govern the USG-GOK Partnership Framework:

High-level government commitment, national leadership, and continued ownership of the response by the government and people of Kenya and the "Three Ones" principles: One National Strategy, which is the KNASP III; One National Authority, which is the NACC; and One National Monitoring and Evaluation System. In addition it will ensure continued collection and application of the best available data to inform and improve HIV policies and programming; enhanced focus on the sustainability of all investments and interventions and support for decentralization and multi-sectoral mainstreaming of health and other essential HIV services with recognition of the key roles played by civil society and private sector organizations. The TBD will also promote meaningful involvement of PLHIV in program development, implementation, and evaluation; increasing focus on a human rights-based approach to reduce stigma, discrimination, and the disproportionate impact of HIV on women and girls and other vulnerable groups. This project will be expected to collect and share optimal detail on planned annual financial commitments to HIV so that the total resource support for the national response is well understood and optimally integrated.

In order to enhance the collaboration between PEPFAR and the UN System this UNAIDS project will provide support to the UN system to hire four technical support staff over a three-year period in order to contribute towards optimal effectiveness and sustainability of HIV work in Kenya.

The UN, through the UN-Kenya Joint Program of Support on AIDS aims to strengthen the country-level response through translation of international guidance and best practices into locally meaningful and standardized programs. The support from PEPFAR will thus strengthen the ability of the Joint UN Program on AIDS to provide high level technical support in the national response. This will be achieved through strengthening of the UN system's role and engagement in advancing the deeply shared targets and principles contained in the newly signed Partnership Framework Agreement between the Government of Kenya and the United States Government (2009-13) to support implementation of the Kenya national response on AIDS as articulated in KNASP III.

The four strategic positions within the Joint program will support NACC and NASCOP in their respective roles in the national response as follows: Senior HIV prevention advisor, PMTCT Officer, MARPs Officer and an ART Surveillance, and Monitoring and Quantification Officer. With the technical support, the UN system in Kenya is expected to deepen and enhance its partnership and working relations on HIV with both the USG and Government of Kenya.

Specifically, the IM will to contribute towards the following selected four goals of the USG-GOK Partnership Framework: Reduced HIV incidence through increased capacity of Kenyan facilities and providers to deliver more effective and better integrated prevention programs, including evidence-based approaches promoting character formation and abstinence among youth as well as fidelity, partner reduction, and correct and consistent condom use by sexually active persons; proven behavioral interventions optimally targeted to the sources of new infections and those most at risk; greatly increased HIV testing and counseling such that at least 80 percent of Kenyan adults know their status; greatly increased availability of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for sexually active adult males, and 100 percent coverage of PMTCT in all public and mission health facilities offering antenatal care (ANC) with more efficacious regimens and improved program quality to reach 80 percent of women who attend at least one antenatal visit, and new community outreach programs developed to provide PMTCT services to at least 50 percent of women who do not attend ANC.

The UNAIDS project will also help build capacity of Kenyan facilities and providers to deliver quality HIV treatment with ARVs expanded to reach at least 80 percent of the population in need, based on current ART guidelines. It will contribute to increase in GOK health commodity projection, procurement, warehousing, and distribution systems from mutually-agreed baselines and in a manner that builds on Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold Program. In addition it will contribute to increased capacity of Kenyan facilities to collect and report routine program data so as to continuously inform programming as well as operational and strategic planning.

The project will expressly pursue and promote the following shared principles of collaboration that govern the USG-GOK Partnership Framework:

High-level government commitment, national leadership, and continued ownership of the response by the government and people of Kenya and the "Three Ones" principles: One National Strategy, which is the KNASP III; One National Authority, which is the NACC; and One National Monitoring and Evaluation System. In addition it will ensure continued collection and application of the best available data to inform and improve HIV policies and programming; enhanced focus on the sustainability of all investments and interventions and support for decentralization and multi-sectoral mainstreaming of health and other essential HIV services with recognition of the key roles played by civil society and private sector organizations. The TBD will also promote meaningful involvement of PLHIV in program development, implementation, and evaluation; increasing focus on a human rights-based approach to reduce stigma, discrimination, and the disproportionate impact of HIV on women and girls and other vulnerable groups. This project will be expected to collect and share optimal detail on planned annual financial commitments to HIV so that the total resource support for the national response is well understood and optimally integrated.