Community Health in Kenya

Dear the Light Blue Army of 112,000 CHPs, If you missed this week's CHP Assembly webinar on your role in Immunization in Kenya kindly watch the recording here ukiingia WIFI zone or ukibuy bundles zako safi. - https://www.youtube.com/live/SeuF1KAfgH8?si=JZk80BPQtBBM_mme It is the most viewed or watched AMREF Health in Kenya YouTube channel in the last 2 months. - Watch you learn too You can watch with your fellow CHP(s) too. Your view there means so much. - Data doesn't lie Usiseme sikukuambia. ✍🏿 Wako katika Huduma za Afya ya Jamii.🎯

SMMTC Mumias trains CHAs too.🎯 It seems by the number of graduates joining the labour market CHAs & CHOs course is the 2nd biggest health course after Nursing. CHAs scavenge more too. For every 1 PHO graduating annually, 5 CHAs graduate and 7 Nurses graduate. After 40 years of CHOs training we can say the CHOs course has peaked. We have more CHOs jobs than before. For the first time KMTC has advertised for CHOs Lecturers. Some counties now hire CHAs every year. CHOs are registered by KHPOA. 2025 CHOs held a scientific conference under CHESOA & ACHVOK. We are in the best ever CHOs era.

AMIU started as a training center 9 years ago for Community Health workers and has now grown into a premium health science University. In 1987 we had Diploma in Community Health graduates from AITC, now AMIU. So the first home of CHAs / CHOs is AMREF. TICH of 1999 was inspired by UON+, which later birthed GLUK. Even in 2009 JKUAT and MKU were training CHOs. KMTC only came to the party in 2019. So CHOs aren't new. - They have been here for 40 years When they tell you the CHOs course is new most likely hawajui mtaa. CHOs have only lacked a union and a regulator because they prefer it that way. Many PHOs, RCOs and Doctors have additional qualifications in Certificate or Diploma or HND or BSc or Masters in Community Health. CC: 1. KMTC CHAs & CHOs 2. SOCHE 3. CHESOA 4. PHO CHEWs

1.1 Ol Kalau CHS 2.1 National Health Summit is coming soon. - I hope PHOs leadership will be involved 2.2 PHOs are key in EHS, FS/FQC, SHS, CHS, WASH, BMH, SWM, and OHS. - Kuwakumbusha tu🎯

Congratulations Trans Nzoia CHPs as you plan to launch your SACCO tomorrow.👏🏿 Even Kakamega CHPs have a SACCO. Doctors have KMA SACCO. COs have Clinicians SACCO. Afya SACCO died. Sasa nangoja CHAs SACCO. CHS ndio inakula.🎯

1. Applications for the certificate in Community Health at Pumwani College of Nursing & Midwifery are now open for the September 2026 Intake. 2. Applications for the Diploma in Community Health at Pumwani College of Nursing & Midwifery are now open for the September 2026 Intake. If you're passionate about improving the health and well-being of communities, this is your opportunity to begin a rewarding healthcare career. ✅ Application is ongoing! Apply online by visiting www.pumwanicollege.ac.ke, or visit our campus in person for application assistance and any inquiries. 📍 September 2026 Intake 📞 Call: 0714 205 938 📧 Email: pumwanicoll@gmail.com Take the first step toward making a difference in your community. Apply today!

Accurate community health data is the foundation of informed decision making and stronger healthcare systems. Today, we commenced a three day Community Health Assessment Data Verification exercise in Ol Kalou, Nyandarua County, to validate community health data and strengthen planning for better health services. The exercise brings together Community Health Promoters from across the county to verify data, identify service delivery gaps and improve primary healthcare. So far, Community Health Promoters in Ol Kalou have registered 18,920 households on the electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS), revisited more than 85 percent of them for routine health services, conducted thousands of diabetes and hypertension screenings, and supported maternal and child health through timely referrals and assessments. Over the next three days, we will engage communities across the five wards of Ol Kalou Constituency as we strengthen community health services. Plans are also underway to roll out this exercise in other parts of the country.

Top CHAs / CHOs graduates producing colleges or universities: 1. KMTC 2. TSMHS 3. JOOUST 4. MMUST 5. AMIU 6. NCMTC 7. Kirinyaga University 8. GLUK

1. Finally we have the best CHP of the week from Nairobi.👏🏿 - Thengiu muno CHP of the week 06.07.2026 Francis Mwangi of Riverbank CHU 2. Kayole representing Nairobi since 1960. 😃 #AfyaMtaani ndio inakula.🎯

CHP Assembly, Kenya Webinar 06.07.2026, 5 PM - The Role of Community Health Promoters in Scaling Up Immunization in Kenya 1. Opening prayer by Wycliffe Ogenya. CHP Of The Week: CHU Of The Week: 4. Aloise Gikunda: *We will award the best represented county in the webinar. *Moderated the webinar. *Moderated the Q&A. Dr. Rose Jalango: *Appreciated the role of Christine Miano in community engagement in NVIP with DCH. *Presented on CHPs Role in Immunization. * Abdi Adan, a Mandera UHC CHA, asked about the expired UHC CHAs contracts. 5. PS Mary Muthoni: * Watch the livestream / recordings on AMREF in Kenya here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/SeuF1KAfgH8?si=Q8uV2cyaTK2QPuLq

The most common reasons for eCHIS redblink observed on ground - Red flagged "Missing Client Details" 1. Household member names entered with trailing spaces after the name. - (Very common) or double space after first name or after second name and vice versa 2. Incorrect arrangement or order of names. - Should match the national Id or birth certificate 3. Incomplete names where individuals with three names have only one or two names captured. 4. Incorrect or incomplete birth certificate details. 5. Use of birth certificate serial number instead of birth certificate entry number that was captured on SHA for dependents. 6. The household member has never been registered with SHA. - Can be confirmed with eligibility.sha.go.ke 7. Incorrect spellings for household member names . 8. Incorrect ID numbers entered. 9. Incorrect date of births.

1. Kesho ni siku yetu wanaCHS. 2. 5 PM let's meet on Zoom here https://amref.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yGHNS5gyRa-1t9A1ojkpNw we learn about CHPs Role in Immunization in Kenya. 3. Kama kawaida it is a whole of community health webinar bringing together CHPs, CHAs and Coordinators from counties, partners, DCHS, NVIP and our PS Public Health. 4. Just 1 hour of CHS e-learning where you can engage and get feedback. - CHP Assembly

I can finally admit Unemployment imepanga Nurses. From Babu on TikTok to Sakin on TikTok that is the story. Sad when Nursing is still the health course / profession employing the most numbers. Huku kwetu KMTC CHAs wameshindwa kupanga hata demo about their unemployment. - Na wakapeana an excuse even a villager wouldn't buy 😃 In December 2026 KMTC might just hit 10,000+ total CHAs + CHOs graduates. - It will nice to do that labour market analysis PHOIs are still unpaid. - KEHPHPU should fight walipwe Luckily we can now hear about Nurse Volunteers. - The last I heard that was from a Rift county Nurse For us unfortunately some PHOs volunteer for more than 10 years. Wanjagi was saying CHAs should be allowed to volunteer. Sakin has explained the story of volunteering health professionals better. I would love to hear from yPHOs or yCHOs who have graduated since 2021. Ni kaa ni mbaya.🥲

Responding to OJ, My CHS take I support every month we get a CHA / PHO CHEW / CHU of the month during the last CHP Assembly webinar of the month. - Huyu should be awarded that KShs. 5000 Then the 1st week of December iwe ndio Community Health Week with Community Health Awards Summit happening the same week. - It can digitised iwe during CHP Assembly time, kaa kuna funds CHU4UHC can support iwe physical The following to be awarded: 1. CHP of the Year 2. CHA / PHO CHEW of the Year - Rated using CHAs tasks performed on eCHIS / Good ground CHS performance 3. CHU of the Year - Determined by eCHIS + ground performance 4. CCHSC / CHS County of the Year 5. PS CHS Achiever of the Year - Either a CHP or CHA CHA / PHO CHEW of the Year: 1. Can be awarded. 2. Can be facilitated to attend the next annual CHESOA CHS Conference + the next PHC Conference + the next Community Systems Strengthening (CSS) National Forum 3. Can be nominated to be awarded by the President for recognitions done during national holidays At least OJ afurahie. 😃

Thanks NVIP for sharing this 2 days before the CHP Assembly webinar on CHPs Role on Immunization in Kenya. Mercy Ziro, a Misufini CHP, is part of the 112,000 CHPs serving their villages in the spirit of afya yetu, jukumu yetu. Mercy has been a CHP for 11 years. Mercy, a parent of 2 children, takes health talks on immunization to the community and ensures children or pregnant women are immunised or protected. She follows up children at homes till they reach 5 years. That is the story of Mercy. This coming Monday you have an opportunity as a CHP or CHA or CHS Coordinator to learn that and more for join this conversation online at 5 PM on https://amref.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yGHNS5gyRa-1t9A1ojkpNw . Co-hosted by DCHS and AMREF Health in Kenya. Under the patron PS Public Health Mary Muthoni. NVIP video imewapea kionjo. Monday usikose.

KMTC CHAs are planning a demo about their unemployment.😃 Previously they held an unemployment webinar. KMTC has been producing CHAs for the last 5 years. Na niliwawuon wakanipuuza na kuniingilia. KMTC continues to admit thousands of CHAs annually. Those CHAs are later forced to upgrade. - Hapo KMTC wanakula dabo dabo Infact KMTC CHAs graduation numbers are yet to peak. Nangoja I share their demos messages. Will they get heard? Will they get employed by doing a demo? What happens when KMTC makes good revenue by producing CHAs when it's 7,200 graduates are 90% jobless and 50% of it's campuses are admitting CHAs? Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cn3HmxsGt/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/iammutukufred_kmtc-chas-are-planning-a-demo-about-their-activity-7453323177151053824-cvHJ TikTok: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS9YjXc6m/

1. Kwale County has advertised for 4 PHOs and 2 CHOs. - PHOs qualify to apply for all the positions 2. CHOs qualify for the ACHO III. 3. Applications deadline: 23.07.2026