INTRODUCTIONPrimary Health Care (PHC)Primary Health Care (PHC) is considered: • Highly effective • Low cost • Culturally appropriate and • Best way to provide quality healthcare services (ewww.who.int/topics/primary_health_care/en/) These are the benefits that accrue to the community where PHC is the mode of healthcare delivery. This is possible since PHC emphasizes: • Preventive medicine • Delivery assistance • First aid • Distribution of basic medicines • Nutrition • Clean water • Sanitation and • Health education The main vehicle that drives PHC forward are community health providers. These are community members (ASCs) who have undergone 6 to 9 months of intensive training and are supervised, undergo regular training and are able to manage 75% of all illnesses, health problems of individuals and the community. The ASC coverage area includes: • First aid for injuries • Immunization • Vaccination • Provision of antibiotics • Oral rehydration therapy • Growth monitoring • Nutritional education/information • Micronutrient supplementation (vitamin A, iron ) • Maternal and child health There is a referral procedure, where the CHW can refer seriously ill patients to the nearest health facility. Countries like China, Costa Rica, Cuba and other countries in Africa have used the primary health care delivery model with great success, resulting in reduced infant and maternal mortality rates. and increase overall life expectancy and other health indicators. .When national health systems composed of health facilities, doctors, health personnel, nutritionists and public health workers around well-trained and motivated CHWs are able to provide high quality health care to the community...... middle of paper .. ....2 draft health policy USAID• KNBS(2003). Kenya Household Health Survey • Wamai RG (2009). Kenya's Health System - Situation Analysis and Persistent Challenges. JMAJ. 52(2):134-140• ewww.who.int/topics/primary_health_care/en/• www.un.org/en/documents/udhr• www.who.int/healthsystems/.../abuja_declarati.• www .who.int/.../ContractingPrimaryHealtServ..• http://www.who.int/healthsystems/universal_health_coverage/en/• WHO (2013). Overview of the country cooperation strategy • WHO (2011). The Abuja Declaration: ten years later • Ministry of Health (2005). Reversing the trends. The Second Kenya National Health Sector Strategic Plan (NHSSP II 2005-2010).• Ramare GNV, Chepkoech R. Worke NW (2013). Improving universal primary health care in Kenya. A case study of the Health Sector Services Fund. World Bank. Washington DC. • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Helsinki.