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Integrated Health Services

In alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals and Kenya Vision 2030, CHAT's motor and camel mobile health services provide integrated health services with an emphasis on our innovative strategy of holistic family planning, that incorporates ecological awareness & sensitization.
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CHAT includes a strong component of Behavior Change within all interventions.​

Basic Curative Services

Basic curative services provide an entry point for many of CHAT’s other health service interventions.
CHAT provides treatment for many ailments, such as upper respiratory track infections (URTI), malaria, diarrhoea, skin infections, etc.

HIV/AIDS

Kenya's HIV prevalence rate is 4.9%. 

​CHAT integrates a number of relevant HIV/AIDS service components to all of our interventions, which include: 
  • ​HIV/AIDS counselling and testing 
  • Referrals for anti-retroviral treatment (ARVs)
  • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)
  • Treatment of opportunistic infections (OI)
  • Treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and condom distribution
  • Prevention of transmission with positives
Every year, CHAT reaches an average of 67,528 people - adults and youth - with HIV prevention messages through one to one or group discussions, condom demonstrations and information about the prevention of mother-to-child transmission as well as prevention of transmission with positives & provides HIV/AIDS counseling & testing. (It is mandated by the GoK MoH to test and counsel all patients also)
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Immunization

CHAT assists the MoH where & when possible to provide or refer all the essential childhood immunizations as stipulated by the Ministry of Health guidelines including:
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  • Polio
  • Measles
  • Pneumococcus
  • BCG - for tuberculosis
  • DPT - Pentavalent: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Though female genital mutilation is illegal in Kenya, it is considered a rite of passage for young women and is still deeply embedded in the cultural fabric of numerous tribes, including many of the communities that CHAT serves. 
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Education efforts target young men who are encouraged to debate the ongoing necessity for such a practice and to eliminate their expectation of a "circumcised" bride. CHAT continues to collaborate with other agencies in an effort to partner and strengthen its FGM interventions in the communities it serves.

Tuberculosis

Working closely with the MOH and in partnership with AMREF Health Africa, CHAT is supported by the Global Fund New Funding Model to implement the following interventions:
  • Identifying and referring new contact smears
  • Identifying TB patients who have interrupted treatment
  • Providing health & nutritional education for TB patients via household visits.

COVID 19

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The COVID-19 pandemic and being able to access family planning remain the most urgent concern for rural communities. CHAT Integrates COVID-19 prevention, protection, control and suppression activities with CHATs pre-existing family planning outreach to impoverished communities.