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Lydia Kuria

Lydia Kuria

Project Officer, Amref Health Africa

Lydia is a nurse and works as a Project Officer with Amref Health Africa. She currently provides Technical Support to primary health care facilities located in the Kibera informal settlement in Nairobi. Her technical support covers maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV; gender-based violence; and pediatric and adolescent HIV prevention, care, and treatment. Prior to this, Lydia worked as a nurse in the MNCH/Maternity and outpatient departments in the Amref Kibera Clinic, where she served as the facility team lead. Lydia enjoys farming and providing mentorship and life skills training to young girls and women. You can reach Lydia at lydia.kuria@amref.org.

Lydia Kuria is a nurse and facility in-charge at Amref Kibera Health Centre.
Integrating FP/RH into HIV Programming: Experiences from the Kibera Reach 90 Project
Sarah KosgeiAlex OmariDiana MukamiLydia Kuria July 30, 2020

The integration of voluntary family planning and reproductive health care (FP/RH) with HIV service provision ensures FP information and services are made available to women and couples living with HIV without discrimination. Our partners at Amref Health Africa discuss the challenges of effectively addressing FP needs for vulnerable clients living in informal settlements and slum areas, and offer recommendations for reinforcing FP and HIV integration.

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