Population and Health

USAID/Kenya's population and health program has three components, HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and support; family planning and child survival; and health sector reform and health care financing. Our program seeks to continue its achievements in these areas and to provide lessons to the rest of Africa on how to successfully address these problems. Provisional results from the Kenya 2003 Demographic and Health Survey indicate that sexual activity by unmarried women and men has decreased in the past five years. Sales of socially marketed condoms, targeting those who are already sexually active, increased by 12% over FY 2002 to almost 20 million, meeting the FY 2003 target. After the Thanksgiving Day 2002 terrorist bombing of a hotel in Mombasa, many lives were saved due to the new blood transfusion center there, part of the USAID-supported national safe blood project. USAID has provided more than 20,000 girls and young women with HIV/AIDS peer education and life skills training. We also trained people living with HIV/AIDS in public speaking, making them eloquent advocates of self-risk perception, behavior change, and stigma reduction, speaking in schools, churches, and workplaces and on call-in radio programs.