Prevention, Management and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases and Infectious Diseases in Kenya

This project, from June 2018 – May 2020, is to capacity build frontline health care workers to deal with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and infectious diseases (IDs) across Nairobi, Kakamega, Nyeri and Kilifi counties in Kenya. This will occur through enhancing the capacity of the health care workers to ensure quality management of diabetes, childhood asthma, pneumonia and diarrhoea. Health workers will be trained, community-based disease surveillance will be strengthened, mobilisation and advocacy activities will occur, and monitoring and evaluation will be facilitated to generate evidence for policy and practice change. The project will reach a total number of 3,413 direct beneficiaries (mainly healthcare providers). In addition, 4,000,000 indirect beneficiaries will be reached through trained health workers and community outreach activities.