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LVCT Brief
Since it was first established as a Kenya NGO
in 1998, Liverpool VCT (LVCT) has partnered with the Government
of Kenya, through the Ministry of Health’s National AIDS
and Sexually Transmitted Infections Control Program (NASCOP) in
scaling up quality assured counseling and testing services in
resource-poor settings throughout Kenya, including Nyanza.
LVCT also serves as the secretariat for NASCOP’s
National Quality Assurance Team (NQAT) for counseling and testing
and has been central to the development of standards and guideline
for VCT as well as the legal based for registration, licensure
and accreditation of VCT sites.
• Of the roughly 800 VCT sites in Kenya,
LVCT has helped to establish over 400.
• We have also trained over 70% of all the certified VCT
counselors in Kenya.
Through capacity-building of local partners, 150
of the 400 sites have been “graduated” to be managed
by the GOK, CBOs and/or FBOs. The remaining 250 are on their way
to being graduated.
LVCT provides staff, basic training, refresher training, supervision
and quality assurance guidance.
Through its strong basic and operations research
program, LVCT contributes to evidence based policy formulation
and programming in Kenya by sitting on many of the task forces
of NASCOP as well as the Interagency Coordinating Committee (ICC)
of the National AIDS Coordinating Council (NACC).
LVCT has also spearheaded gender equitable provision of HIV/AIDS
prevention, care and treatment services with particular emphasis
on improving access to services for groups with special needs
including, inter alia: survivors of sexual violence, the deaf
and men who have sex with men (MSM). This applies to Liverpool’s
work in facility-based care and antiretroviral treatment and to
both static and mobile counseling and testing.
LVCT currently trains around
500 counselors annually and support 7 FBOs including one Muslim
FBO, 20 CBOs, 9 LVCT stand alone sites and 214 GOK sites in its
capacity building program. This program promotes decentralization
of services and community ownership and employs a robust, replicable
model of quality service development.
New partner commit to a one-year package that
includes:
• Sites selection,
• Training of counselors, supervisors and managers,
• Observed practice
• Support supervision,
• Quality assurance training and guidance,
• Refresher training.
Source: LVCT Brochures...
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