Launched in 2009, the public-private partnership provides home-based HIV counseling and testing. It aims to reach two million people in western Kenya with their services over the next two years. The counselor carries hand-held PDA and GPS devices to collect and enter data on family health, record test results and identify the physical location of the household for treatment, education, counseling and data collection follow-up. Results after the first year of the programme show that more than three-quarters of those who tested positive for HIV did not know their status.
Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria 2010, Health at Home / Kenya Status Report, Mar. 2010
Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria 2009, Home-based HIV Testing Initiative in Western Kenya to Reach 2 Million People
U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 2009, Bringing Home-Based Counseling and Testing to Western Kenya
Ngirachu, J. 2009, Door-to-Door HIV Tests Begin, Daily Nation Kenya, 17 Apr. 2009
Leach-Lemens, C. 2009, Using Mobile Phones in HIV Care and Prevention, HIV&AIDS Treatment in Practice, no. 137, pp. 2-7
[added April 2010, updated Dec. 2011]
