Health Action AIDS Campaign

Advocacy Partnerships in Africa

KENYA

HERAF's Strategic Objectives

1. Build a Health Professional Movement for AIDS and Health Rights:
   Through outreach and coalition building, HERAF is forming a coalition of health practitioners engaged in health and human rights advocacy, with AIDS as a focal point, to ensure that the unique voice of health workers is heard by policy makers nationally and internationally.
   
2. Influence Kenyan AIDS and Health Policy, Funding and Programming:
   Kenya is continually forming and updating AIDS and health policies, programming and budgets. This network will contribute to this process through advocacy for human rights protection and equitable care, both by spearheading three major advocacy campaigns and by mobilizing the health worker voice to support campaigns conducted by colleague organizations.

   The forum will organize three major campaigns:

   • Health Financing Campaign: HERAF will advocate to increase the health budget and improve resource allocation through budget analysis, media outreach and advocacy to policy makers.
   • Health Workforce Development Campaign: Mobilizing health workers from different professionals into a unified voice, HERAF will develop advocacy campaigns to encourage the government and development partners to increase the number of health workers in Kenya and improve working conditions so health workers can provide the best care for their patients.
   • Stigma Reduction Campaign: HERAF will work to reduce stigma in health settings through health provider-patient partnerships focused on advocacy, education and outreach.

   The forum will also lend its clinical and scientific expertise to other coalitions working on prevention, microbicides, women’s rights and other critical AIDS and health rights challenges. We encourage other organizations working on health advocacy campaigns to contact HERAF at any time to discuss ways we may work together and add value to their advocacy.

3. Create “Right to Health” Frameworks for Use Country Wide:
   HERAF also seeks to change the discourse around health in Kenya by formulating frameworks, education tools and policy briefs that can facilitate discussion and action from a human rights perspective and will support other organizations doing right to health work.