Global Health - Kenya

Global Health

Add this to...
Añadir en...
Favorites
Delicious
Digg
Google Bookmarks

Our Progress in Kenya

Impact in Kenya

2 million people received HIV counseling and testing results between 2008 and 2009
207,370 houses sprayed and 1,257,941 people protected from malaria in three target districts as part of the President's Malaria Initiative
96,000 HIV-positive pregnant women received a full course of antiretroviral prophylaxis
160,000 individuals are taking antiretroviral therapy, including 16,000 children
1,300 people enrolled into two phase III malaria vaccine trials of one of the most efficacious vaccines
188,000 people are under surveillance for respiratory, jaundice, febrile, and diarrheal conditions
220,000 people part of a health and demographic surveillance system that collects health and demographic information every three months
80-90% of identified HIV-positive patients are taking life-prolonging cotrimoxazole prophylaxis
348,000 people are covered by 11 influenza sentinel surveillance system at all provincial hospitals in Kenya
5,424 public health officials from 20 countries participated in infection control, epidemiology, laboratory, pandemic preparedness, and rapid response training and exercises

CDC's Kenya operations are an exceptional investment, accomplishing major health impacts with minimal resources. These investments have paid off. The Kenyan Ministry of Health is much better prepared now to respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases through programs such as the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program. There are hundreds of thousands more Kenyans receiving HIV treatment. These investments help keep CDC-Kenya on the cutting edge producing real-world research that is impacting the policy of the Kenyan government. Recent NIH funded research that had a site in Kisumu showed that a treating an HIV infected person early helps protect their partners from becoming infected with HIV.

Stories of Progress

For children under five in particular, like 3-year-old Fadhil Smith, 3, bed nets provided by the CDC can literally mean the difference between life and death. CDC figures show that where once children were exposed to as many as 300 infected mosquito bites each year, the number today is closer to three. The Snowball Effect—Battling Malaria on a Global Stage
In a district hospital in western Kenya, more than 200 mothers and children crowd into a small room, hoping to be seen by the hospital's one outpatient healthcare worker. Inside the hospital is an even bleaker scene. Two, three, or even four seriously ill children lie piled on a single hospital bed. When the nurses prick their small arms to give them transfusions or medicine, their blood is pale pink instead of a healthy red, destroyed by the malaria parasites that have feasted on their tiny bodies
Photo Credit: ©David Snyder/CDC Foundation
Posted June 22, 2011