Baringo is one of the counties in Kenya with poor RMNCAH indicator performance. More than 375 women die while giving birth and atleast 30 children out of 1000 born die at birth or immediately after birth. These challenges are attributed to several factors ranging from poor access to health services, low quality of services, social-economic and cultural hurdles, and unavailability of equipment to support maternal health. With support from Safaricom Foundation, the Afya Uzazi Salama project focussed on:

• Increasing demand for RMNCAH services through various demand-creation interventions in the community.

• Improving access to RMNCAH services in remote and underserved populations of Baringo County.

• Advocacy and policy development

Key Achievements

• Gold Star Kenya supported Baringo County to develop a Community Health Services Bill aimed at improving county financing of community health services

• Five facilities renovated and one borehole sunk to improve access to clean water

• Improved access to the National Health Insurance Fund’s Linda Mama and EduAfya programs from 15% to 53%

• Immunization of nearly 40,000 children against measles achieving 89% of set target and more than 35,000 children fully immunized achieving 85% of set target.

• Nearly 50,000 pregnant women reached with ANC services achieving 157% of set target

• More than 20,000 pregnant women reached 4th ANC visits achieving 80% of set target