Kenya

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We're transforming health care for women and families in Kenya through innovation, partnerships, and community-driven solutions.

Selected Achievements

  • More than 4 million women have adopted a family planning method of choice in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Jhpiego-led projects have expanded access in these countries by helping counties institutionalize high-impact family planning interventions, reaching over 492,000 new users, reducing teen pregnancies by 6%, and mobilizing more than KES 155 million in local government funding for sustainability.

  • 37,806 clients, including adolescents and young women, have been initiated on PrEP and PEP. This was done through the establishment and validation of a pharmacy-delivered PrEP/PEP service model in Kenya, which was demonstrated through a national implementation guide, operational manual, and pilot.

  • Building on the Obstetric Safe Surgery work in Makueni County, Jhpiego supported the introduction of digital technology in operating rooms through the Proximie platform that allows for virtual participation in surgery and critical real-time support, mentorship and training. This bridges in-person and virtual capacity-building support.

  • 4,685 adolescents and young people have been reached with reproductive health services including PrEP for HIV prevention since June 2017. In addition, Jhpiego has accelerated HPV vaccine uptake in Kenya by registering over 29,000 girls, training health workers, and delivering school and community outreach to advance cervical cancer prevention and health equity.

  • Jhpiego supported Kenya’s Ministry of Health in developing the country’s first-ever obstetric fistula curriculum and playbook. This resource serves as a strategic guide for policymakers and strengthens the capacity of surgical and care teams, helping to optimize treatment and improve outcomes for women affected by obstetric fistula.

  • Remarkably, Makueni County, Kenya has not reported any maternal deaths from postpartum hemorrhage between 2023 and 2024, and Homa Bay County has reported zero maternal deaths since May 14, 2025. This has been achieved through Jhpiego-supported training, mentorship and provision of life-saving interventions.

  • More than 700,000 women have given birth under the care of a skilled health worker in Jhpiego supported health facilities across Kenya. This contributed to measurable improvements in maternal mortality, with Vihiga County experiencing a 30% reduction in maternal mortality and 57% in perinatal mortality.

  • Jhpiego-led advocacy efforts have unlocked over $4 million in county government funding to support family planning initiatives.

Current Projects

Expanding Access to Postpartum Family Planning

The Accelerating Post-pregnancy Integration into Primary Healthcare (APIP) Project aims to increase contraceptive use among postpartum and post-abortion women in the first year after pregnancy.

  • Focusing on public facilities in Isiolo, Makueni, Kwale, and Kakamega counties, APIP collaborates with private facilities and strengthens county leadership to expand family planning services nationwide.

  • Efforts include advocating for dedicated funding, building provider capacity through training and mentorship, engaging community health volunteers, and promoting uptake through outreach and quality improvement initiatives.

Reducing Maternal Deaths from Postpartum Hemorrhage

The Accelerating Measurable Progress and Leveraging Investments for Postpartum Hemorrhage Impact (AMPLI-PPHI) aims to dramatically reduce maternal mortality and morbidity from postpartum hemorrhage.

  • Funded by Unitaid, AMPLI-PPHI is ensuring that quality medicines are available whenever and wherever they are needed. This project trains health care providers on the latest postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) prevention and treatment guidelines, develops job aids and client education materials, and advocates for quality-assured medicines.

  • It strengthens health systems through supply chain assessments, including price, availability, and value chain analysis, to improve PPH readiness and response throughout Kenya.

Leveraging Digital Solutions to expand Family Planning Access

E-Pharm for Family Planning explores how e-pharmacy and telemedicine can expand access to family planning services in Kenya.

  • Implemented in partnership with MYDAWA, this initiative gathers evidence on client attitudes, behaviors, and preferences, and looks at how digital consultations and direct-to-consumer models affect contraceptive uptake and continuation.

  • Jhpiego partners with the public sector to ensure a reliable supply of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) commodities and shares findings to inform national policy and future programs.

Expanding HPV Vaccine Access to Prevent Cervical Cancer

The HPV Vaccine Acceleration Program Partners Initiative (HAPPI) aims to increase HPV vaccine coverage for girls, focusing on underserved communities and those with disabilities.

  • HAPPI works with Kenya’s Ministry of Health National Vaccines and Immunization Program and the county governments of Nandi and Elgeyo Marakwet to identify unvaccinated girls and addresses gaps in coverage.

  • In schools, HAPPI facilitates gender-sensitive health education programs, including in selected model schools, engaging both girls and boys to raise awareness, encourage vaccine uptake, and advance health equity in the fight against cervical cancer.

Improving Access to Lifesaving Health Services

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership

  • MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, funded by the United States Government, is a global mechanism that saves lives and improves access to quality, integrated health services by distributing life-saving commodities, medicines, and vaccines, and providing critical health care services for pregnant mothers and children under five. The project provides safe childbirth for mothers and babies, vaccinates children, treats deadly illnesses and malnutrition, and controls disease outbreaks.

    Learn more here: Momentum Country and Global Leadership

Expanding Access to PrEP Through Pharmacies

PharmPrEP equips pharmacy providers with skills in HIV testing, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and post-exposure prophylaxis through mobile-enabled courses and hands-on training.

  • PharmPrEP is testing a pharmacy-delivered model for HIV prevention in Kenya, led by Jhpiego in partnership with Fred Hutch, Kenyatta University, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and Partners in Health and Research Development.

  • Working with the National AIDS & STI Control Programme, the project created a blended learning approach that equips pharmacy providers with skills in HIV testing, PrEP, and PEP through mobile-enabled courses and hands-on training. Initial findings show that, with training, pharmacy providers can effectively initiate and manage PrEP and PEP in line with national guidelines, reaching populations who are at higher risk for HIV.

Scaling High-Impact Family Planning Solutions

The Challenge Initiative (TCI) partners with local governments to implement and scale proven family planning interventions.

  • Through targeted technical assistance and coaching, TCI supports counties to invest in high-impact approaches, adapt them to local contexts, and embed them into existing health systems for long-term sustainability. This locally led model is accelerating the uptake of modern contraception across East Africa.

Improving Health Through Integrated Approaches

Reaching Impact Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE)

  • Reaching Impact Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) is a multi-country project funded by the U.S. Government to save lives and improve health through integrated, evidence-based approaches to address urgent gaps in lifesaving services. RISE works across all levels of the health system to strengthen the HIV/TB epidemic response, to limit the spread of deadly disease outbreaks through Global Health Security programming, and to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality through integrated maternal, newborn, and child health, nutrition, tuberculosis, and malaria services. RISE supports country governments to strengthen essential data systems, supply chain and commodity management, human resources for health, domestic resource mobilization, and other cross-cutting health system functions to accelerate transition to country ownership. Since 2019, RISE has supported programs in more than 25 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The program runs through December 2027. Learn more here.

Improving Access to Safe and Respectful Caesarean Care

In Nakuru County, the Obstetric Safe Surgery project is strengthening surgical team capacity to provide safe, timely, quality, and respectful caesarean section care.

  • In partnership with AIC Kijabe and funded by the Global Surgery Foundation, the project aims to improve maternal and newborn outcomes using an integrated hub-and-spoke model to build health system capacity, train surgical teams through hands-on, team-based approaches, and strengthen referral networks.

  • Over three years, it aims to improve access to safe caesarean care for nearly 21,000 procedures, while leveraging data to inform national policy.

Advancing Family Planning and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health

The SMART Advocacy for Strategic Action (SASA) Alliance is building stronger advocacy systems to advance family planning and maternal, newborn, and child health across Africa.

  • The SMART Advocacy for Strategic Action alliance, led by Partners in Population and Development Africa Regional Office, Jhpiego Kenya, and Pathfinder Nigeria works with civil society organizations, non-traditional advocacy partners, and global stakeholders such as the World Health Organization, FP2030, and United Nations Population Fund, to strengthen advocacy capacity, improve coordination, and foster adoption of evidence-based best practices at national and sub-national levels.

  • The initiative promotes domestic resource mobilization through co-financing agreements and diversified funding commitments to sustain progress in family planning and maternal, newborn, and child health.

Country Director

Paul Nyachae 

Country Director
“Jhpiego's partnership continues to be instrumental in enabling us to realize our vision of becoming a globally competitive institution for training human resources for health. We acknowledge and deeply appreciate the role Jhpiego plays in supporting our endeavors to equip skilled health professionals who contribute to Kenya’s and the global health system.”
— Dr. Kelly Oluoch, Chief Executive Officer, Kenya Medical Training College