Mildmay Kenya
The Mildmay Kenya Team with Mildmay's CEO Geoff Coleman
Mildmay Kenya works to empower communities to deliver HIV health care services through support, education and training. We work to reach key affected and at-risk groups including young women, children, adolescents, MSM*, and sex workers
HIV in Kenya
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There are 1.5 million adults and children living with HIV in Kenya
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4.5% adult HIV prevalence (ages 15-49)
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42,000 new HIV infections
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21,000 AIDS-related deaths
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75% of adults on antiretroviral treatment**
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63% of children on antiretroviral treatment**
**All adults/children living with HIV
Source: UNAIDS Data 2020
*Men who have sex with men
Source: AVERT
Our projects:
Mildmay Trustee, Naggib Chakhane, introduces the Bondo Youth Friendly Services Centre (BYFC), Siaya County, during a visit to inspect Mildmay's projects in Kenya in May 2022.
In this short film, Mildmay's CEO Geoff Coleman tells us about this new centre.
The aim of this project was to refurbish the only health centre on Mageta Island to improve healthcare standards and encourage the use of the clinic.
The health centre is the only one for all 12,000 inhabitants of the island.
Improving maternal and child health on Mageta Island in Lake Victoria
Healthcare for pregnant women on Mageta Island was basic and struggled to cope with emergency complications. The result of this was an unnecessary loss of life to both newborn babies and mothers.
The project has provided:
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The modified Tuk-Tuk ambulance, which has enabled vulnerable pregnant woman to deliver their babies at Mageta‘s community health facility. The ambulance can navigate the difficult terrain of the Island safely and is also equipped to deal with on-the-road emergencies.
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Vital postnatal care, including testing for HIV.
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Training for 30 community health volunteers (CHV) in emergency obstetric care. (Each CHV can reache around 100 households.)
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Education for households on the importance of dedicated maternity services.
Magnet Theatre has produced some of Mildmay Kenya’s most visible examples of behaviour change.
The Magnet Theatre Project, working with the local community in Siaya County, was envisaged to bring together young people to be able to discuss, access and contribute to the dialogue of HIV, SRHR (sexual and reproductive health rights) and demand creation and utilisation of the services related to HIV/SRHR.
Photo courtesy of Global Fund/John Rae
The Global Fund HIV Programme, administered in Kenya through the Kenya Red Cross Society, undertakes to expand universal access to care and treatment services.
Mildmay Kenya is a sub-recipient of the fund and is working with Community Health workers in Samia, Teso South, Siaya and Bondo to advance care and support of the chronically ill, prevention of parent to child transmission, HIV testing and counselling as well as enhancing quality leadership and governance.
Lying off the eastern shores of Lake Victoria adjacent to Siaya, Mageta Island is about 8km from end to end and about one kilometre wide at its widest. Its total surface area is around 6.6 square kilometres. It is located in Bondo district, one of the poorest districts in Kenya.
The main economic activities are fishing and small-scale subsistence farming.
Despite social, economic and political advances elsewhere in Kenya, the island community feels isolated and there is little development in infrastructure, health and education. The island is not connected to the electricity grid and inefficient solar power cells generate barely enough power to light 40w light bulbs.
*Mildmay in the UK supports our 'daughter' NGOs overseas
Mildmay KENYA and Mildmay UGANDA operate independently - they are locally registered with their own Boards of Trustees and constitutions. Although they undertake fundraising and partnership work locally, they rely on Mildmay's supporters in the UK to help fund their work.
Mildmay UK needs to raise funds for these and other projects
