Disability is not Inability

:: Liverpool Deaf VCT Programme.

The Liverpool VCT Care and Treatment is the strategic partner in training and supervision and general management of the Deaf voluntary counselling and Testing programme. The programme initiated by stakeholders in 2003 has grown from one Deaf VCT site formerly in Buru buru and currently in the city centre - the Nairobi Deaf VCT to currently three VCT sites.

The two others are found in Kisumu City and Mombasa City in the coast province. Outreach programmes by each site ensures a wider reach of the service working with various community organisations, health facilites and support groups.

The programme provides HIV/AIDS and STI services to the deaf community both from the three VCT sites and through widespread outreach programmes that cover virtually the whole country.

The current programme coordinator Washington Opiyo Sati who is deaf, has spearhead the programme with a higher intensity of community mobilisation participation. He has seen much support from the energetic director.

The programme has seen various improvements during the period. The number of deaf people trained in counselling and peer education has increased. LVCT trained the thrid lot in the year 2006.

The year also saw the training of more nurses in sign language in a one week training course that was organised by the LVCT. This was a follow-up training for the same that was done for the nurses in 2004 by one of the stake holders Kenya National Deaf AIDs programme.

LVCT deaf programme has also opened more opportunities to work with more organisations including the umbrella organisation Kenya National Association of the Deaf. KNAD Executive director has been more involved in the various mobilisation activities both at the national and at the grassroots level. This is especially important because the KNAD has a wide branch network whose activities cover the largest portion of the deaf community in Kenya.

This involvement of the deaf organsiations was as a result of the open door policy of the late Director who in an effort to expand client flow encouraged more engagement of the community.

This has seen the Kisumu and Mombasa Deaf VCT branches also grow in client flow and increase the demand for more refferal netwrokeing into the rural areas especially within quality post test support structures that LVCT is know for.

This is essential if more deaf people are to have access to Anti-retroviral treament.

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