NAIROBI, Kenya — Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale held high-level talks with World Vision Kenya as the government accelerates efforts to deliver Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through community-based health systems.
Duale met World Vision leadership led by Gilbert Kamanga, reaffirming a partnership that currently supports health services across 33 counties and 288 public health facilities.
The CS said Kenya’s health reforms are anchored in the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), which prioritises Primary Health Care as the backbone of the national health system.
He highlighted the rollout of more than 107,000 Community Health Promoters (CHPs) and the establishment of 267 Primary Care Networks, describing them as critical to delivering preventive and basic health services at the household level.
“We are building a health system that starts with the community,” Duale said, calling on development partners to help close remaining gaps in national coverage.
The meeting also focused on reducing maternal and newborn deaths, improving nutrition, expanding water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services, and strengthening school health programmes, particularly in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs).
Duale noted that Kenya has already made gains in child nutrition, with stunting reduced to 18 per cent, but said sustained investment is required to protect vulnerable populations from climate-related shocks.
He urged donors to move away from short-term projects toward multi-year, system-strengthening partnerships aligned with the government’s One Plan, One Budget framework.
The meeting was also attended by Public Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni and Director-General for Health Patrick Amoth.
