Western HIV/AIDS Network will implement SRHR -Program to save women and girls lives.
Commitment description:Kenya has unacceptably high maternal death at 488 per 100,000 live births (with some regions reporting MMRs of 1,000/100,000 live births) in 2008/9, an increase from 414/100,000 in 2003, 590/100,000 in 1998. Most maternal deaths are due to causes directly related to pregnancy and child-birth unsafe abortion and obstetric complications such as severe bleeding, infection, hypertensive disorders, and obstructed labor. Others are due to causes such as malaria, diabetes, hepatitis, and anaemia, which are aggravated by pregnancy.The proportion of women making the recommended number of antenatal care visits of 4 and above declined from 64 per cent in 1993 to 52 per cent in 2003 and to 47% in 2008/9, while the proportion receiving skilled care during delivery declined from 45 per cent in 1998 to 42 per cent in 2003. Skilled attendance at birth increased to 44% in 2008/9.The contraceptive prevalence rate for modern methods among married women increased from 32% to 39% between 2003 and 2008/while at the same time, the use of 64 traditional methods decreased from 8 to 6% of married women. The unmet need for family planning, which is still considered high, has remained at 24 3 percent since 1998. This has largely been attributed to inadequate service provision, poor access due to persistent family planning commodity insecurity and limited resource allocation. More rural women are to receive skilled assistance during delivery; reducing long standing disparities between urban and rural areas. Serious disparities in coverage are also found between the wealthiest and the poorest households. In the developing regions [Kenya] as a whole, women in the richest households are three times likely as women in the poorest households to receive professional care during child birth.
Modes of engagement:
- Budgetary and financialWestern HIV/AIDS Network will need a yearly budget of US.D $ 500,000 Yearly for a period of Five Years to effectively implement a S.R.H.R Program
Value: The amount of money so requested will be utilised to build the capacity of our organization's member groups for effective respond to SRHR-Program in Kenya.buld
- Programmatic actionWestern HIV/AIDS Network is mainly a Capacity Building NGO-Network to more than 600 member organizations linked to the Network by official registration. The member organizations are committed to important Development, Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention,
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.
