In July this year, the hospital, in collaboration with the Walter Reed project, South Rift, rolled out a KShs. 5 million Abstinence and Being faithful (AB) programme.  The programme will run for one year.

The empowerment of the youth through education and communication for behaviour change is one of the most powerful tools for curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS infection.

The goal of the programme to encourage the youth act as change agents in the community by abstaining from sex as well as sensitising  adults on the importance of  being  faithful to one’s partner. Youth clubs will formed to bring young people together for support and encouragement in their endeavour of maintaining abstinence.

The hospital launched the programme in line with it’s core value of alleviating human suffering as a service to God. The project will reach out to schools, churches, social gatherings and agricultural exhibitions with the message of abstinence and being faithful as a strategy to combat HIV/AIDS.

Objectives of the program

• Create awareness in primary and secondary schools.
• Advocate for abstinence through formation of abstinence clubs.
• Grouping teenage girls and training them on good morals.
• Facilitating youth fora such as seminars and conferences.
• Training teachers and education officials on methods of promoting abstinence.
• Addressing the issue of safe sex by being faithful in marriage to married couples in church sponsored men and women’s conferences.

Since the inception of the AB program, a total of 2542 individuals have been reached to date. Our target is to reach 15000 individuals.