Nyumbani, a Kenyan faith-based organization that is one of the world’s largest pediatric HIV service providers, was profiled on BBC News on July 20. Nyumbani runs three programs: Nyumbani Home, Lea Toto, and Nyumbani Village. Nyumbani Home, the oldest of Nyumbani’s programs, is a permanent home to approximately 120 children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Lea Toto is a pediatric HIV primary care program offering services to over 8,000 HIV-positive children and their extended family members in eight informal settlements around Nairobi. Nyumbani Village is a innovative model for sustainable rural development and an alternative to placing children whose parents have died from HIV/AIDS in an orphanage; it is now a permanent home to over 1,000 children orphaned by the epidemic and over a 100 senior adults whose adult children have died from the disease as well. The senior adults serve as grandparents for the children of the Village.

Since 2010, IHP has placed eighteen Emory students from Rollins School of Public Health, Candler School of Theology, Laney Graduate School, and Emory College in eight-week summer field placements. These placements have been made possible through partnership with Nyumbani and with Emory’s Religion and Public Health Collaborative and Global Health Institute.