Kenya

Differentiated Service Delivery in Kenya

Facility-Level
Coverage

%

Percent of health facilities providing less-intensive DART models.

From the National data, 3000 of 3578 (84%) facilities have enrolled at least 10% of eligible recipients of care into less-intensive models.
Source: 2022 CQUIN DART CMM self-staging results

% In Less-Intensive
Differentiated Treatment Models

%

Percent of people on ART who are enrolled in less-intensive DART models.

Source: April-June 2022, DHIS-2 data report

Multi-month ART Dispensing

20

%

Percent of people on ART receiving ≥ 6 months of ART at a time. 

Source: April-June 2022, DHIS-2 data report

DART Model
Diversity

Number of groups for whom less-intensive DART models have been designed and implemented.

Children, adolescents and young people, pregnant and breast-feeding women, men, people with HIV and NCDs, people with AHD, female sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, transgender people, incarcerated/detained people, and migrant/mobile populations.
Source: 2022 CQUIN DART CMM self-staging results

Differentiated Service Delivery in Kenya

Kenya joined the CQUIN learning network in 2016, bringing with it an existing national policy on differentiated service delivery (DSD) and a technical working group tasked with providing input and guidance on DSD implementation. Currently, Kenya’s Ministry of Health and the National AIDS and STI Control Program (NASCOP) provide guidance on DSD implementation and work toward improving and expanding upon existing DSD models to present recipients of care with more options.

Recipients of care have played an integral role in the scale-up, implementation, and prioritization of DSD in Kenya. Community members actively participate in policy revisions and the development of new guidelines. One such policy propelled by the RoC community called for the provision of a basic health education curriculum to everyone receiving ART, creating more informed and empowered DSD mechanisms.

Currently, Kenya offers five different models of ART service delivery, including four less-intensive DSD models and the more-intensive conventional model known as “Standard Track.” All four less-intensive models include three-month multi-month scripting for ART refills, allowing recipients of care to pick up medication in bulk and minimize clinic visits. The less-intensive differentiated models include:

  • Two facility-based models: fast track; family-centered model of care delivery within a family unit.
  • Two community-based models: peer-led community-based ART distribution; and health care worker-led community-based ART distribution.

According to July 2019 data from the national health information system and the data warehouse, NASCOP estimates that 88 percent of people on ART are enrolled in a less-intensive DSD model versus 12 percent who continue to receive services in the more-intensive Standard Track model.

One major barrier to DSD implementation in Kenya is the lack of an effective monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system. According to NASCOP and its partners, there are persistent challenges in M&E of DSD, such as incompleteness of reports, varied understanding of DSD indicators, and a lack of effective M&E tools. Therefore, Kenya is intensifying its focus on M&E and quality, efforts supported by CQUIN.

In June 2018, a team from Kenya visited Uganda on a south-to-south learning exchange, where they observed the linkage of The AIDS Support Organisation’s (TASO) community M&E system with Uganda’s national DSD M&E system, learning how these resources could be adapted to fit Kenya’s context. Additionally, in June 2019, CQUIN’s Quality Improvement workshop was held in Nairobi, Kenya, convening 165 experts in-country to share knowledge and develop resources to strengthen quality improvement in DSD implementation.

Resources

Taking Differentiated Service Delivery to Scale in Kenya

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