About Naishi
Naishi Project is a five-year HIV prevention, care and treatment program funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). NAISHI is a Swahili word meaning I LIVE and is focused on achieving HIV epidemic control in Machakos, Makueni and Kitui.
Working in collaboration with County Departments of Health, Naishi seeks to achieve HIV epidemic control by supporting the implementation and expansion of high quality, sustainable and comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment programs across CHS supported health facilities in the Eastern region. Some of the services offered include:
Our Responses
- Optimisation of HIV testing services to all eligible people in line with national guidelines
- Comprehensive HIV care and treatment for people living with HIV
- Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services
- Integration of TB/HIV collaborative activities
- Antiretroviral (ART) commodity management and support
- Strengthening laboratory systems to support quality monitoring of all people living with HIV
- Promoting and scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision among men, boys and male infants, as a critical HIV prevention intervention
- Information systems management and monitoring and evaluation support
