Gold Star Kenya manages and implements a Gold Star Network of almost 150 facilities and a network of over 200 individual health care workers all over the country.
With donor funding from Safaricom Foundation, Gold Star Kenya (GSK) is implementing a broad health system strengthening NCD interventions in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Garissa county health management team, community health strategy, and facility-based health care workers.
Gold Star Kenya is a sub-contractor for HIV Service Delivery Support Activity (HSDSA) Cluster 2 known as Afya Nyota ya Bonde project.
As the name of the project suggests, the goal is to improve access to quality, client-centered and linked health care services.
Tujenge Jamii is a USAID funded service delivery project, providing HIV care and treatment, as well as (FP/RMNCAH), nutrition, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. The project is focused on increasing the use of county-led health in four counties namely; Baringo, Laikipia, Samburu and Nakuru.
Gold Star Kenya implemented in AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance, Rift Valley, also known as APHIAplus Nuru ya Bonde project that was supported by the United States Agency for International Development and led by fhi360.
Baringo is one of the counties in Kenya with poor MNCAH indicator performance. More than 375 women die while giving birth and at least 30 children out of 1000 born die at birth or immediately after birth.
The Health Communication and Marketing (HCM) Program, was implemented by the PS Kenya led consortium for three years and implemented in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Kiambu, Machakos, Kajiado, Kwale and Kilifi counties.
Gold Star Kenya under the FHI 360 led, USAID funded LINKAGES project implemented comprehensive combination intervention program in Kilifi County aimed at mobilizing, enrolling and networking the targeted KP peers, their peer educators and selected health facilities to access FSW-friendly continuum of services, develop referral networks and link FSWs to an established Drop in Centre (DIC) in Kilifi County.
Gold Star Kenya, through USAID Tujenge Jamii project, worked in partnership with the County Governments of Baringo, Nakuru, Samburu and Laikipia and the Ministry of Health to implement a co-created, and co-managed comprehensive COVID-19 response.
With donor funding from Safaricom Foundation, Gold Star Kenya (GSK) is implementing a broad health system strengthening NCD interventions in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Garissa county health management team, community health strategy, and facility-based health care workers.
Baringo is one of the counties in Kenya with poor MNCAH indicator performance. More than 375 women die while giving birth and at least 30 children out of 1000 born die at birth or immediately after birth.
Community-level nutrition interventions target children aged under two years (0-23 months).
With the Health budget being overstretched and population growing, health needs of people cannot be met by relying only on public resources.
Through Public-Private Partnerships, Gold Star Kenya is leading the way in new approaches for health care providers to offer in sustainable ways high-quality integrated HIV/TB prevention, care, treatment, and support services through strategies that build provider technical capacity, improve coordination of HIV care and treatment, enhance data management, improve quality, reduce costs and ensure accountability.
To improve access to maternal and child health services in remote and underserved populations to increase immunization coverage by supporting integrated outreaches.
With a focus on social and behavioural change, we strive to address pressing challenges, promote health and well-being, and drive progress at both the individual and community levels.
Through collaboration with relevant institutions locally and internationally, GS Kenya has established the generation of new knowledge and enrichment of the existing through sustained data research and learning.
Through partnership with TIKO Africa, the Triggerise project is an adolescent SRH initiative that focuses on interventions to reduce incidences of teenage pregnancies and HIV infections by increasing access to modern contraceptives and HIV testing among adolescents aged 15-19 years.
Through public-private partnerships, Goldstar Kenya enables increasing knowledge and skills among public sector and private sector Human Resources for Health (HRH) in implementing HIV/AIDS prevention programs and providing care and treatment services, Family Planning, Reproductive Health, Maternal and Child and Adolescent Health (FP/RMNCAH) and Nutrition Services, Diabetes and other non-communicable diseases.
Gold Star Kenya has vast experience programming in the Arid & Semi-Arid Lands(ASAL) where extremes of drought & floods occur regularly.
More than half of the global population does not have access to safe sanitation. More than three billion people do not have access to handwashing facilities with soap and still 673 million people practice open defecation.
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