Results from the 2008-09 KDHS indicate  that 6.3 percent of Kenyan adults age 15-49 are infected with HIV. HIV prevalence in women age 15-49 is 8.0 percent, while for men age 15-49, is 4.3 percent.

Young women are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection compared with young men. For example, 3 percent of  women age 15-19 are HIV infected compared with less than one percent of men age 15-19, while HIV prevalence among women 20-24 is over four times that of men in the same age group(6.4% vs. 1.5%). FHOK strategic objective is to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS and the full protection of the rights of people

infected and affected by HIV/ AIDS while increasing access to interventions for the prevention of HIV/AIDS/STIS through integrated gender – sensitive SRH programs.

FHOK provides Integrated wide range of HIV/AIDS services namely Voluntary Testing and Counseling, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT), Provision of Anti Retro Viral (ARV), Treatment of Opportunistic infection, Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) and Psycho Social Support. To improve service delivery in this area and to be in line with Ministry of Health last year the service providers were trained Provider Initiated Counseling and Testing (PITC). During the year under review there was a 20% increase of VCT services from 50,560 in year 2009 compared with 60,877 in the year under review while ARV services

increased by 40% from 4,406 in the previous year compared to 6,160 in year 2010. This was contributed by Global Fund Round 7, Japan Trust Fund and Institute of Tropical Medicine funded projects with mobile outreach activities.

To strengthen HIV/AIDS strategic priority, FHOK initiated two new projects that focused on “Integrating HIV prevention and positive prevention for women and men women and men in Nakuru District” funded by Japan Trust Fund and “Adolescents Count Today (ACT)”, to meet Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights needs of adolescents living with and affected by HIV in Kenya and funded by Positive Action for Children Fund through IPPF. These two innovative projects were implemented in Nakuru, Eldoret and Thika clinics. Further partnerships with the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation and other related Ministries in the government played a major role in the success of these projects. Innovative aspects of these projects included partnership with microfinance institutions to build the entrepreneurship skills of People Living With HIV (PLWHIV) in income generating activities.