2 June 2017

The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) through funding from the Global Fund and support from the Kenyan government has launched a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) project in Turkana County that aims to address HIV risk amongst the adolescents and young women aged between 15-24 years. The project that was launched on 31 May 2017 in Kalokol, Turkana is being spearheaded by KRCS and National AIDS & STI Control Programme (NASCOP) and will benefit 9,000 direct beneficiaries in Turkana Central, South and North. This is a pilot project that hopes to build new intervention methods of fighting HIV/AIDS. It provides the adolescents and young women access to Reproductive Health (RH) and HIV related services, life skills training and other related interventions. This target group are deemed to be vulnerable and account for almost 1 in 3 infections in the region and acquire HIV 5 – 7 years earlier than their male peers.

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