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Jacaranda Health opened its first clinic in 2011. A social venture, it combines business and clinical innovations to provide women living in Nairobi’s peri-urban areas with high-quality, friendly and affordable maternity care through a network of…

Marcia Castro and Jesse Heitner, of the Harvard School of Public Health, presented research on barriers to IPTp uptake and access versus quality in Kenya. View a video of the presentation>>

In addition to a lack of access to quality prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services at the clinic level, community-level factors such as stigma; adverse gender dynamics; low support for HIV testing, antenatal care, and skilled…

This report summarizes the key results emerging from an evaluation exercise carried out in Naivasha District, Kenya to assess the effects of the intervention package, known as the Community Mobilization for Postabortion Care (COMMPAC). This exercise…

In October 2012 the Gates Foundation awarded PATH and the World Health Organization (WHO) a one-year “Prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy” grant to reduce adverse outcomes due to malaria in pregnancy by increasing IPTp and ITN uptake in selected countries…

“M-PESA” (“pesa” means “money” in Swahili), which is the mobile banking product of Vodafone, is used by 13 million customers in Kenya and another six million in Tanzania. While several cell phone companies have introduced m-banking, Vodafone dominates…

Kenya’s Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) recognizes that increasing the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) and ensuring a full range of contraceptive choices is an enormous challenge. In 2008, the Government of Kenya articulated a national strategy…

In response to the need for family planning, the Kenyan Ministry of Public Health’s Division of Reproductive Health (DRH) developed a strategy for increasing the uptake of LA/PMs in 2008. The strategy’s overarching goals were to establish a sustainable…

“M-PESA” (“pesa” means “money” in Swahili), which is the mobile banking product of Vodafone, is used by 13 million customers in Kenya and another six million in Tanzania. While several cell phone companies have introduced m-banking, Vodafone dominates…

The RESPOND Project designed an intervention package aimed at increasing awareness and use of post-abortion care (PAC) services and improving family planning, reproductive health, and maternal health outcomes. As part of the intervention, RESPOND is…