The Community Strategy in Kenya was revised in 2005 as the vehicle to deliver the National Health Sector Strategic Plan and as a way to achieve the health pillar of “Vision 2030”. Although the community strategy has been in use in Kenya since 2005, there lacks clear quality assurance and reporting structures to make it fully functional to achieve desired results. 

Project title: Strengthening the community health strategy in Kenya: home based counselling and testing.

HIV remains a major public health concern in Kenya.  Kenya wants to expand HIV services at community level to identify and ensure effective linkage between communities and health services and retention of clients in health care. There is need to develop human resource capacities, guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), supervision mechanisms, quality indicators and tools to address this gap.

LVCT’S component of the REACHOUT project will focus on testing a comprehensive quality assurance approach, determining CHEWs impact on health care, data collection mechanism in order to promote expansion of close to community (CTC) providers and health care nationwide.

Project period: 5 years

We therefore seek to fill the following vacant position for this project

Position: Research Officer

Job Purpose:

To assist in the implementation of the REACHOUT project. 

This position is also open to a researcher who is interested in undertaking a Masters project in this area under the LVCT Masters Fellowship Programme.  

Duties and responsibilities

Human Resource and Administration Division,
Liverpool VCT, Care and Treatment,
P.O Box 19835, 00202