Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Details for Mechanism ID: 12656
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2011
Main Partner: Eastern Deanery AIDS Relief Program
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: FBO
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $7,680,000

Cross cutting budget attributions include Human Resources for Health Renovations and Food and Nutrition Commodities.

Human resource support will include hiring of additional staff (clinical officers, nurses, and laboratory and pharmaceutical technologists). EDARP has been working in the same area and has supported some building renovations to create essential additional work spaces. Food and nutrition supplements will support care of deserving HIV positive patients and malnourished or vulnerable children.

Funding for Care: Adult Care and Support (HBHC): $600,000

EDARP will support expanded care and support services to 15,000 HIV-infected individuals at over 13 sites in the Nairobi region of Kenya.

EDARP will support a package of services that includes clinical evaluation and laboratory monitoring, provision of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis, treatment of opportunistic infections, nutritional support and improved access to safe drinking water and malaria prevention interventions; 50 health care workers will also be trained to provide palliative care services using national guidelines. This will include training in diagnostic counseling and testing to improve/increase provider-initiated testing and subsequently increase patient enrolment into HIV care.

EDARP will expand care programs by providing technical support, supporting staff salaries, training staff, conducting laboratory evaluation. EDARP will offer both facility and community based support activities to PLHIV to HIV counseling and testing, adherence to ART, psychosocial support, positive living and stigma reduction. The outcomes of these activities will be monitored and evaluated.

Funding for Treatment: Adult Treatment (HTXS): $3,850,000

EDARP will expand a collaborative relationship with Kenya Ministries of health through the National AIDS and STI Control Program (NASCOP) at national, provincial and district level in Nairobi region, to enhance and expand the antiretroviral treatment program in Nyanza region in Kenya, providing treatment to 12,000 people with HIV (including 360 new, bringing the total ever treated to 14,400 in over 13 sites. 50 health care providers will receive ART training. EDARP will support, staff salaries, training, laboratory evaluation, adherence counseling, and monitoring. ARVs

will be supplied to the sites through the distribution system of the recently awarded

Kenya Pharma project and the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA).

The partners will work closely with and support the activities of the Provincial AIDS and

STI Coordinator for the assigned region. These activities will include support for regular meetings of providers from sites in each region. EDARP will also support

establishment/strengthening of other regional activities, including developing a system

for quality control, a regional system for transfer of blood samples/results to optimize the utilization of the CD4 cell count machines, and a regional quality improvement program.

Funding for Testing: HIV Testing and Counseling (HVCT): $1,200,000

This is a new award that will support HIV testing and counseling activities in Slums located in eastlands part of Nairobi Province in Kenya. The partner will offer HIV testing services to a total 160,000 persons and shall train 1000 persons in Provider Initiated HIV testing and counseling as per the national curriculum.

Funding for Care: Pediatric Care and Support (PDCS): $100,000

None

Funding for Treatment: Pediatric Treatment (PDTX): $430,000

None

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (CIRC): $500,000

None

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (MTCT): $100,000

None

Funding for Care: TB/HIV (HVTB): $900,000

EDARP will support TB/HIV services by screening ~8,750 HIV patients, identify and treat ~875 TB patients including children at 13 sites in the Nairobi region in Kenya.

EDARP will support a package of services at the facility and community including TB screening of HIV patients and HIV testing for TB patients, clinical monitoring, related laboratory services, treatment and prevention of Tuberculosis, infection control. EDARP will support refresher training of laboratory staff and improvement of basic laboratory microbiology capacity in order to meet the increased needs of TB testing. 50 health care workers will be trained to provide clinical prophylaxis and/or treatment for TB to HIV-infected adults and children. EDARP will refer TB/HIV patients for clinical care appropriately while ensuring that activities are implemented according to the national guidelines. EDARP will collaborate with the Division of Leprosy Tuberculosis, and Lung Diseases (DLTLD) and other partners to achieve the national and PEPFAR goals.

EDARP will monitor and evaluate the TB/HIV activities following the national guidelines and M& E framework

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $1,621,919
Construction/Renovation $52,029
Human Resources for Health $1,569,890