Uzazi Salama
Project Title: Group Antenatal Care (G-ANC)
Donor: TIBA Foundation
Partners: Matibabu Foundation
Contract Value: $50,000
Period: Oct 2025- Oct 2027
Project Objective: The aim of the project is to improve maternal, newborn, and women’s health outcomes in Siaya County by implementing an integrated community-based model that addresses persistently high maternal mortality and low cervical cancer screening rates.
Project Name: Energy as a Service
Project Title: Exploring the Potential of Energy as a Service (EaaS) to Provide Sustainable and Cost-Effective Solution for Electrification in Private Primary Healthcare Facilities in Kenya
Donor: International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Partners: KOIS, Busara Centre for Behavioural Economics
Contract Value: $165,402
Period: 2025-2026
Project Objectives: The aim of the research is to catalyse private sector investment in the electrification of primary healthcare facilities in Kenya through renewable energy solutions, thereby improving health outcomes for marginalized populations.
Project Name: Afya na Mazingira
Project Title: Exploring how climate change impacts HIV prevention and care cascade outcomes for vulnerable men in Kenya
Donor: Canadian Institute of Health Research(CIHR)
Partner: University of Toronto, HOYMAS, Ministry of Health & Nairobi County governments.
Contract Value: $463,000 (Canadian dollars)
Period: Sept 2024 – Dec 2027
Project Objective: This 3-year mixed-methods study with vulnerable men in Kenya will examine pathways between ecosocial factors, including extreme weather events (EWE), resource insecurity, and HIV prevention among vulnerable men
Project Name: PrEP Study
Project Title: Implementation Strategies to Deliver PrEP in Kenya.
Donor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Partners: University of South Florida, 12 county governments, Ministry of Health
Contract Value: $275,000 (USD)
Period: Sept 2023 – Sept 2025
Project Objective: The objective of this study is to determine how implementation strategies and site-level contextual factors affect uptake and continued use of PrEP in 12 counties with moderate to high HIV burden in Kenya
Project Name: Huduma Mtaani
Project Title: Increasing access to HIV services among the LGBTQ+ community in Kenya
Donor: Elton John’s AIDS Foundation (EJAF)
Partners: HOYMAS, Ministry of Health & county governments of Nairobi and Kajiado
Contract Value: $189,000(USD) Additional funding: $50,000
Period: Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
Objectives: This is a program designed to decrease HIV transmission among key populations in two counties in Kenya. This is a two-year project with HERA as the Prime supported by a sub-awardee, HOYMAS.
- HIV/ST, PrEP provision and commodity management
- Train service providers on Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and Value Clarification and Attitude Transformation among health care providers.
- Conduct Data Quality Analysis (DQA) and write a report
Project Name: NCD Study
Project Title: Developing and Implementing Multi-level, non-communicable disease (NCD) programs in Kenya
Donor: Yale University
Partners: Ministry of Health, Nairobi County Government
Contract Value: $28,000.00 (USD
Period: Jan 2023- Dec 2024
Objectives: The objective of the NCD study was to understand the barriers and facilitators for NCD screening in the urban informal settlements of Nairobi Kenya. This is a two year study with three aims.
Aim 1:Identify barriers and facilitators to hypertension and T2D screening and management:
Aim 2: Design a partnership model among the multi-level stakeholders and identify implementation strategies
Aim 3: Implement and evaluate the selected model and strategies by measuring relevant implementation outcomes
Project Name: Group Pregnancy Care
Project Title: Assessment of Feasibility and Acceptability of Delivering Group Pregnancy Care using Mobile Health (m-health) Techniques in Kenya
Donor: Yale University School of Nursing
Partners: Ministry of Health, Machakos County
Contract Value: $7,500.00 (USD
Period: Aug 2023 – Nov 2023
Objectives: This survey sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of m-Health among pregnant women in Kenya. The study was implemented in Machakos County of Kenya, where we interviewed pregnant women, postnatal women, health care providers, family members and key informants from the county
Project Name: Jenga Beshte
Project Title: Using Web-based Peer Support to Increase HIV Testing Among Men who have Sex with Men in Kenya
Donor: Yale University
Partners: Q-Initiative, HOYMAS, & county governments of Nairobi and Uasin Gishu
Contract Value: $25,000.00 (USD)
Period: Jan 2020- Dec 2022
Objectives: A research study designed to adapt and implement an evidence-based internet-delivered peer program that aims to: increase peer social support, decrease social isolation, minimize the effects of HIV and same-gender stigmas on HIV self-care and healthcare seeking behaviors, such as HIV testing. HERA led and managed remote qualitative data collection during Covid-19 lockdowns