HIV Prevention and Treatment Services are delivered primarily by the Services Department as outlined in the LVCT organogram. To operate optimally, LVCT utilizes a range of diversified points of service delivery. The regional offices in Western and Eastern offer all LVCT services, manage programmes and act as the LVCT representation in these different geographic locations of Kenya.
Service delivery is premised on the core values of LVCT including commitment to service with the guiding principles facilitating our decision making processes. The services department places knowledge of status by all individuals and their sexual partners at the centre of all its programming having provided CT to approximately 950,000 Kenyans . Innovative ideas and strategies to deliver counseling and testing to individuals, families, couples and children have been developed by the Prevention Division whose primary focus is on Counselling and Testing for HIV. Counselling and testing approaches VCT services, mobile VCT, Provider Initiated Testing and Counselling and Home Based Counselling and Testing.
To strengthen the continuum of care the Services Department provides palliative care to 16,724 Kenyans among whom 6,420 are on anti-retroviral therapy . Through our innovative VCT plus' model where a HIV care clinic complements the VCT site, LVCT has been able to ensure referral and entry to treatment and care of 97% people who test HIV positive in these model sites that are currently 3 in number. To strengthen our and partners capacity to monitor HIV among our patients, LVCT supports laboratory networking for health facilities.
With Kenya's epidemic being generalized and occurring in both the general population through heterosexual relations and in specific vulnerable and at risk groups, LVCT is committed to providing targeted prevention, care and treatment services to special needs groups. Based on programme evaluation and data from LVCT, from trends in other parts of the world and from evidence in Kenya, LVCT has focussed on the Youth, men who have sex with men and with special attention to the Prison population, sex workers, survivors of sexual violence and people with disability as vulnerable and most at risk groups. Emerging groups within heterosexual populations such as couples and children receive special attention within programmes.
LVCT utilizes the community mobilization Division to provide education and sensitization on HIV, raise demand for access to testing services and care and treatment services.
LVCT provides technical and financial support to 17 Community and Faith Based Organizations (CBOs) through sub-granting at approximately US$ 150,000 to deliver primarily counseling and testing services
The Department is headed by a Director who is also a Deputy Director of LVCT and each division by a Manager or Coordinator. The Services department is the embodiment of the LVCT guiding principles of universal access, providing the continuum of prevention care and treatment, decentralization, integration, local ownership, focus on vulnerable groups, capacity building and evidence-based policy formulation. Further we work closely with the government of Kenya and subscribe to the national policies and strategic plans and mechanisms governing HIV and AIDS.
The contact person for Services Department is:
Dr. Paul Wekesa
Email:pwekesa@liverpoolvct.org
P.O Box 19835-00202, Nairobi
Tel No: 254 02 2714590
