Advancing Comprehensive and Compassionate HIV Services to HIV-affected Families
Latest News
- Check out fabulous photos of the work FACES is doing.
- Updated Reports and statistics have been posted. Click here for an Overview.
- Read about Males and HIV prevention services in our latest FACES Talk Newsletter, April 2012.
- FACES Family Model of Care paper published in JIAS! Read More.
- Integration for Impact: Reproductive Health and HIV Services in Sub-Saharan Africa conference to be held in Nairobi in September. Sign up for updates
- Dissemination Meeting on Female Migration findings Read more.
- “Getting to Zero” –FACES and World AIDS Day
- FACES and UCSF's HIV/AIDS program featured on ABC News! Read More.
- Upcoming HIV related conferences and meetings
- New! Sunburst Project and FACES launch a peer educator program for HIV+ youth Read more.
FACES e-Newsletter
Kisumu Clinic
Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES) is an HIV/AIDS care and treatment program in Western Kenya and Nairobi. FACES is a collaboration between the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), funded through the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
AIDS deaths in Kenya have a profound and increasing societal and economic impact. Life expectancy in Kenya has dropped from 60 years in 1993 to 47 years due to the impact of HIV/AIDS1. The worst affected area is Western Kenya, where the prevalence is 15-40%.
Formed in September 2004, FACES mission is to provide accessible comprehensive care and support services to HIV affected families and other vulnerable populations in Kenya, reinforce prevention practices, and train Kenyan health workers in scientifically sound HIV/AIDS care.
1 The Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS, Epstein, 2004
FACES is a program of the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF, the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, and the Kenya Medical Research Institute
