For the Kenya PLHIV community, the Kenya–US Health Cooperation Framework came with the advantage of leveraging the Kenya government investment for health - something communities and civil society have been calling for.   The primary goal of the agreement remains to build a self-reliant Kenyan healthcare system aligned with the country's Universal Health Coverage agenda via Taifa Care. This guarantees ‘Health Sovereignty’   However, the main reason we rallied PLHIV community to support the framework is because it relies on a shared-responsibility investment split over five years - Kenya pledging $850 million (Sh110 billion) in domestic health expenditure. This funding scales up progressively to allow Kenya to gradually absorb financial responsibility for its health programs. Is that not what we have been calling for?   The framework also addresses the twin perennial challenges of Human Resources for Health (HRH) and Supply Chain Management. Over five years, Kenya will gradually absorb U.S.- funded front-line health workers onto local public payrolls and assume full procurement of health commodities. @MOH_Kenya @MOHMedServices @psmuthoni @HonAdenDuale @fnoluga @USEmbassyKenya @CDCKenya @CDCGlobal @AfricaCDC @KEMRI_Kenya @NASCOP @nsdcc_kenya @UNAIDS @WACIHealth @UHC2030 @DrMercyHealth @KenyaGovernors @HennetKenya @gnpplus @NTLDKenya @citizentvkenya @DrMercyKorir @OleItumbi

Over two days, UNAIDS and partners confronted the difficult questions around the future of the UN JOint Programme on AIDS and the global HIV response. The discussion was clear: transformation must strengthen — not dilute — the response. Countries and communities must remain at the centre. UNAIDS’ critical functions must be protected. And no function should move until the capacity, resources and accountability to take it on are in place. FEATURE STORY: unaids.org/en/resources/pres…

Today’s opening session at the HIV cure Summit: communities must understand the science before they're asked to trust it. A HIV Cure will only be equitable if people living with HIV help shape it now, not receive it later. #HIVCure #PLHIVLeadersNow @NJotwoma @NEPHAKKENYA