{"tags": [{"id": 19, "search": null, "name": "Health care workers", "code": ""}], "categories": [{"hasContent": true, "id": 2, "search": null, "name": "Accident and Injury Prevention", "code": "80"}], "versions": [{"publisher": {"id": 1, "search": null, "name": "Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation", "contact": ""}, "authors": [{"id": 82, "search": null, "name": "Ministry of Medical Services", "contact": ""}, {"id": 1, "search": null, "name": "Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation", "contact": ""}], "collaborators": [{"id": 7, "search": null, "name": "CDC", "contact": ""}, {"id": 156, "search": null, "name": "John Snow Inc Kenya", "contact": ""}, {"id": 56, "search": null, "name": "KEMRI", "contact": ""}, {"id": 24, "search": null, "name": "KNH", "contact": ""}, {"id": 10, "search": null, "name": "NASCOP", "contact": ""}, {"id": 9, "search": null, "name": "WHO", "contact": ""}], "fileUrl": "media/infection_control_policy.pdf", "id": 60, "search": null, "name": "National Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Health Care Services in Kenya", "description": "", "edition": "First", "state": "CURRENT", "upload": "./infection_control_policy.pdf", "datePublished": "2010-12-01"}], "relatedGuidelines": [{"summary": "Prevention, and reduction of adverse events and injuries arising from or during the process of healthcare is a priority in ensuring optimal patient outcomes and protecting the health worker.", "id": 339, "categories": [14, 15], "name": "National Action Plan On Patient Safety, Health Worker Safety and Quality of Care \u2013 August 2022"}, {"summary": "Prevention, and reduction of adverse events and injuries arising from or during the process of healthcare is a priority in ensuring optimal patient outcomes and protecting the health worker.", "id": 338, "categories": [14], "name": "National Policy On Patient Safety, Health Worker Safety and Quality of Care \u2013 August 2022"}, {"summary": "The Policy  ensures excellence in nursing and midwifery \r\npractice and  advance quality nursing and midwifery services for all. ", "id": 290, "categories": [18, 23, 24], "name": "National Nursing and Midwifery Policy"}, {"summary": "The Manual will enable CHVs participate in the promotion of mental health as well as prevention, identification\r\nand appropriate referral of persons with mental disorders in the community.", "id": 457, "categories": [12, 5], "name": "Mental Health Training Manual for Community Health Volunteers (CHV)"}, {"summary": "This document will guide all personnel involved in handling decedents suspected or confirmed for COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic.", "id": 399, "categories": [48], "name": "Interim Guidelines on Handling Decedents Suspected or confirmed for COVID-19."}, {"summary": "To provide Quality Improvement at Tier 1 health services, the Ministry of Health has taken steps to develop standards to cater for service delivery at the community level. 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They are a presentation of the expected inputs that are needed to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of defined health services at the different tiers/levels of health system.", "id": 69, "categories": [24], "name": "Human Resources For Health Norms and Standards Guidelines for the Health Sector"}, {"summary": "Intended users for this document include the CHSU and its coordination structures at all levels, key institutions responsible for the collection, management and reporting of CHS -related data, programme managers and others involved in planning and implementing CHS -related M&E and research, plus CHS implementers, development partners and the general public. Wide stakeholder adoption of this Plan will ensure a coordinated approach to M&E and research at all levels under the principle of one national M&E system.", "id": 94, "categories": [23], "name": "Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for Community Health Services (2014-2018)"}, {"summary": "The primary audiences for this document are the health care providers in health care facilities and community settings. 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", "id": 74, "categories": [27], "name": "Basic Paediatric  Protocols"}, {"summary": "This training manual  uses several adult learning techniques of class reading, demonstrations, role plays, card games, ball games, video exercises, clinical demonstrations and practice exercise to ensure competency in the training content.  The learning methodology aims to ensure skills for making a decision on whether to treat or refer the common condition.", "id": 156, "categories": [12, 27], "name": "Integrated Community Case Management for Sick Children under 5 years-  Participants Manual"}, {"summary": "This document will assist the Ministry of Health and the Division of Community Health Services in achieving its strategic objectives as outlined in the National Health Sector KHSSP3 and towards the attainment of Millennium Development Goals (MDG)\r\ntargets. It will be used to administer FP training through well-trained Community Health Extension Workers (CHEW).", "id": 100, "categories": [12, 15, 18], "name": "Community Health Volunteers (CHVs)  Module 11 Family Planning"}, {"summary": "HP practice when implemented appropriately and as per the required standards and expected best practiced levels will ensure that health inequity is reduced and the well being of the population in Kenya is enhanced and maintained at all times. This guidelines and standards therefore outline the minimum standards at which HP practice and training should be conducted. In this way, streamline health promotion practice in our health care system and enable effective and efficient health promotion implementation in the Health and Non-Health sectors.", "id": 15, "categories": [23], "name": "Operational Guidelines and Standards for Health Promotion(HP)"}, {"summary": "The Guideline for ART in Kenya is an important tool for health care providers involved in providing care and treatment to PLHIV including doctors, pharmacists, clinical officers, nurses, pharmaceutical technologists, nutritionist, social workers, laboratory technologist and other service providers. These guidelines have been widely disseminated to health service providers throughout the country.", "id": 88, "categories": [4, 15], "name": "ART Frequently Asked Questions Manual"}, {"summary": "The Community Health Services was initiated in 2006 to fast track establishment of Community Health Units (CUs) so as to bring services closer to the community, by empowering communities with health information and essential services with an overall goal of enhancing community access to health care. Since the launch of the Community health strategy, there has been diverse implementation of services at level one with particular emphasis on training of CHWs and CHEWs.", "id": 93, "categories": [12, 23], "name": "National Communication Strategy for Community Health Services 2012 - 2017"}, {"summary": "The purpose of the trainers guide is to provide a tool for hands-on essential skills and practical knowledge for public health officers to deliver an effective training to personnel charged with the responsibility of cascading trainings for safe and effective IRS application.Through this training, IRS programme staff at National and Sub-National levels will be prepared  to plan,implement,and evaluate IRS training at sub-district level.", "id": 51, "categories": [15], "name": "Indoor Residual Spraying(IRS) Trainers Guide"}, {"summary": "This is a study to among health care workers to determine feasibility of Self-testing", "id": 166, "categories": [4], "name": "Knowing Myself First: Feasibility of Self-testing among Health Workers in Kenya"}, {"summary": "The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) roles, responsibilities and activities of all the HIV stakeholders working with the Ministries of Health (MoH). 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It also contains numerous examples which the facilitator can use in the course of the training.", "id": 83, "categories": [15], "name": "HMIS for HIV/AIDS Training Materials (Facilitator's Guide)"}, {"summary": "The course objectives is to learn about the new indicator set, to learn procedures for completing revised data collection,collation and reporting tools, to be familiar with new data collection requirements, to have a refresher on the role of data in informing decisions and to revisit the linkages between data collection and indicator generation.", "id": 86, "categories": [15, 17], "name": "Health Management Information System(HMIS) for HIV/AIDS Training Materials (Participants\u2019 Notes)"}, {"summary": "This document is developed to be used as a companion to  the National M&E Framework reference documents. It should be used for orienting staff to the M&E System and their roles in it. It also serves as a source reference for understanding indicators and their definitions, data sources, data flow and information use.\r\n", "id": 84, "categories": [15, 23], "name": "Monitoring & Evaluatiin Framework Indicator Manual"}, {"summary": "This document will be used by service providers, who include any individual providing services to SWs such, as health care workers, peer educators, program staff and implementers as well as policy makers, as the standard for the provision of HIV/STI services for sex workers and their sex partners.", "id": 19, "categories": [4], "name": "National Guidelines for HIV/STI Programs for Sex Workers(SWs)"}, {"summary": "A document  available and accessible by all primary health workers especially those working in the maternal and child health programmes, who are among the first to make contact with the child in this way preventing blindness in children.", "id": 72, "categories": [6], "name": "Preventing Blindness in Children"}, {"summary": "As a result of the devastating effects of HIV and AIDS, the Government through a Legal Notice No. 170 of State Corporations Act, established the National AIDS Control Council (NACC) in November 1999 to coordinate, supervise and monitor the implementation of multi-sectoral national HIV and AIDS response. In order to effectively coordinate the national response, NACC created institutional framework including AIDS Control Units (ACUs) in government ministries/departments, Constituency AIDS Control Committees (CACCs) at community level,District Technical Committees (DTCs) at district level and the NACC Field Offices at provincial/regional levels. ", "id": 44, "categories": [4, 23], "name": "Guidelines for field Operations at the  National AIDS Control Council(NACC) Decentralized Structures"}, {"summary": "The Guidelines are for the use of all clinicians who have the primary responsibility for diagnosis,management,and referral of outpatients.They are also very useful to interns,medical students,clinical officers,pharmacists,and nurses in training-generally to health professionals working in the clinical setting and especially those in rural facilities where it might be the only reference book.", "id": 97, "categories": [15, 23], "name": "Clinical Management and Referral Guidelines Volume 1"}, {"summary": "This course will equip health care workers with knowledge and skills to ensure high levels of adherence on HIV care and treatment.", "id": 87, "categories": [4, 15], "name": "Adherence in HIV care and Treatment Trainers manual"}, {"summary": "The HIV & AIDS Decentralization Policy Guidelines will thus provide an implementation framework for all partners to refer to especially in their support for decentralization of HIV services.", "id": 37, "categories": [4, 23], "name": "Decentralization Guidelines for HIV/AIDS care and Treatment"}, {"summary": "Kenya\u2019s health sector recognizes that human resources for health constraints are a critical ingredient \u2013 possibly the critical ingredient hampering Kenya\u2019s health sector planning,service delivery and ultimately national health outcomes. Against this background, the sector has taken on the task of defining long-term strategies for addressing the constraints to human resource development and management so as to effectively improve health service delivery. Thus, this Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan presents, first, a situation analysis of the current human resources situation in the country, the contextual factors, and some of the influences, key issues and constraints across the sector. ", "id": 114, "categories": [24], "name": "National Human Resources for Health Strategic Plan 2009\u20132012"}, {"summary": "These guidelines were developed in the context of existing Kenyan laws and policies, especially the HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Act (2006). They support the provision of HTC to children, youth, and adults, according to the circumstances described herein.", "id": 49, "categories": [4], "name": "National Guidelines for HIV Testing and Counselling in Kenya "}, {"summary": "The National Health Care Waste Management Plan of Action is a document intended for use by health managers and programme officers across the health sector (including those in the private health sector). Its purpose is to provide a tool that gives health managers guidance in planning, implementing and monitoring the activities of health care waste management in health facilities in this way, improving the management of health care waste both within hospitals and community settings\r\n", "id": 62, "categories": [23], "name": "The National Health Care Waste Management Plan 2008-2012 Kenya"}, {"summary": "The National Reproductive Health Policy aims to guide planning, standardisation, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of reproductive health (RH) services provided by the Government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Faith based Organisations (FBOs), Community based Organisations (CBOs), private-for profit sectors,and communities in Kenya. Thus the goal of this policy is to improve reproductive health state of all people in Kenya by increasing equitable access and improving quality, efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery at all levels.\r\n\r\n", "id": 45, "categories": [18, 23], "name": "National Reproductive Health Policy. Enhancing Reproductive Health Status for all Kenyans."}, {"summary": "The goal of this policy document to create and enhance an enabling environment in which all kenyans will be motivated to improve their hygiene behaviour and environmental sanitation,and which gives people access to the necessary support to achieve this. As a basic human right, all Kenyans should enjoy a dignified quality of life in a hygienic and sanitary environment and be free from suffering any ill health caused by poor sanitation.", "id": 53, "categories": [16], "name": "National Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene Policy"}, {"summary": "This manual aims to set standards for delivering counselling services to the survivors of sexual violence and build the capacity of those who provide counselling services to the survivors. It also provides a program that equips trainers to prepare participants to reach out to rape trauma clients in a sensitive, compassionate and professional way thus, to providing a structure and guidance to the trainers.", "id": 65, "categories": [51, 52, 14, 15], "name": "Trainers Manual for Rape Trauma Counsellors in Kenya"}, {"summary": "These guidelines provide the required standards on establishment, registration, management and supervision of ECD services. The guidelines  will ensure effective implementation of ECD programmes", "id": 22, "categories": [23, 27], "name": "Early Childhood Development(ECD) Service Standard Guidelines for Kenya 2006"}, {"summary": "This document sets out the norms and standards that are established to guide efficient, effective and sustainable delivery of this\r\npackage of services. Service delivery standards relate to the expectations of each level of care with regard to service delivery and the human resources needed to provide these expectations. Service delivery norms define the quantities of these resource inputs needed to efficiently effectively and sustainably offer the service delivery package.", "id": 66, "categories": [23, 24], "name": "Norms and Standards for Health Service Delivery"}, {"summary": "The guidelines are intended for use by multi-disciplinary teams of Health Care Workers (HCWs) providing care for HIV/AIDS patients. With the Publication of this guidelines the Ministry of Health hopes to ensure the provision of quality care to the HIV-infected through building the capacity of the providers by equipping them with current and simplified knowledge on the management of HIV infection including the rational use of antiretroviral drugs.", "id": 39, "categories": [4], "name": "Guidelines for antiretroviral therapy in Kenya 3rd Edition 2005"}, {"summary": "The Policy establishes a relationship between the nation\u2019s development and the health of its youth and recognizes the critical role young people themselves can play in promoting their own good health. It also emphasizes a multi-sector, interdisciplinary approach to the provision of integrated and quality reproductive health services.\r\n\r\nThe Policy brings into focus key adolescent reproductive health issues and a range of challenges, from sexually transmitted infections (including HIV) to teenage pregnancy, unsafe abortion and school dropout, along with harmful practices such as early marriage, female genital cutting, gender-basedviolence, and drug and substance abuse.", "id": 46, "categories": [3], "name": "Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development Policy Plan of Action 2005-2015"}, {"summary": "The Strategic Plan 2005-2010 intends to reverse the decline  in the health status of Kenyans. The plan is designed to contribute to the accomplishment of Kenya\u2019s Economic Recovery Strategy and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.\r\n", "id": 60, "categories": [23], "name": "National Health Sector Strategic Plan of Kenya \u2013 NHSSP II \u2013 2005\u20132010"}, {"summary": "The purpose of this guide is to assist program managers and health workers make recommendations on food management and nutritional issues for households with members who are HIV-infected or living with AIDS. The guide refers to the nutritional care and support needs of individuals infected with HIV.\r\n\r\nThe guide is also designed for individuals, families, and communities affected by HIV; thats, they may or may not be HIV-infected but are experiencing the social, economic, and health consequences of the virus. The guide is designed with the view that sound nutrition practices will\r\n\r\n\r\n", "id": 50, "categories": [4], "name": " Guide for Nutritional Care and Support in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 2004"}, {"summary": "The development of Private Health Sector Policy in line with the government's private sector initiative now provides the opportunity for direct government support to the private health care providers. The policy is aimed at providing a framework for facilitating the growth and development of the private health sector, monitoring and regulating private health care providers. I", "id": 48, "categories": [22], "name": "Private Health Sector Policy"}, {"summary": "Thus Policy framework paper is devoted to the health sector, and takes as its particular theme that of investing in Health. It begins with a series of situational analysis which highlight the problems faced by the health sector In Kenya. Next It elaborates general strategies to address the particular problems identified, and finally defines the horizon of the Government's health policies Into the next century.", "id": 47, "categories": [22], "name": "Kenya's Health Policy Framework.November 1994"}], "lastUpdated": "", "id": 61, "search": null, "name": "National Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Health Care Services in Kenya", "summary": "The National Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Health Care Services in Kenya are to be used by all levels of health care facilities to prevent and control Hospital Acquired Infections(HAIs) and to safeguard the well-being and safety of patients, clients, and health care workers (HCWs). ", "description": "These guidelines are in keeping with the new shift in the delivery of health care services that promote and emphasize integrated services. The guidelines complement and make reference to existing policies and cover all areas of possible transmission, including injection and phlebotomy safety and the prevention of tuberculosis (TB) and influenza.\r\n\r\nThe goals of these guidelines are as follows:\r\n\uf0a7 To reduce the incidents of preventable infections in patients and staff and safely care for patients with infections\r\n\uf0a7 To promote good practices through a better understanding of IPC\r\n\uf0a7 To guide the health sector in the development of safe, effective, and appropriate procedures\r\n\uf0a7 To deliver IPC strategies within the strategic framework of the health sector through the annual operating plan (AOP) framework\r\n\uf0a7 To promote a greater awareness of potential infection hazards for HCWs", "guidelineType": "CLINICAL", "datePublished": "2010-12-01"}