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Article

17 Apr 2009

Author:
Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria

Home-based HIV testing initiative in Western Kenya to reach 2 million people

A groundbreaking initiative that will provide home-based HIV/AIDS testing and counseling for two million people in western Kenya over the next two years was announced today by the…Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya, the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (GBC) and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)… PEPFAR has committed up to $2.7 million and GBC's member companies will match that amount…Early participants…include the Abbott Fund, Accenture, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, CfC Stanbic Bank Kenya (a member of Standard Bank Group), The Coca-Cola Company, Deutsche Post DHL, Pfizer, Premier Medical Corporation, SAB Miller and Standard Chartered Bank…