Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) has trained 150 peer educators on key populations size estimation and mapping in order to better plan HIV prevention interventions. The 2-day sensitization training, that was held at Blue Springs Hotel, equipped peer educators with the knowledge to identify behavioral risk factors among female sex workers and their […]
Hundreds of women gathered at the Huruma Grounds to witness a women football tournament organized by Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) to mark International Women’s Day on Thursday. The tournament dubbed “Scoring for PrEP” was aimed at creating awareness on how young women can boldly fight HIV through the use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis […]
KOINANGE STREET It had taken her colleagues a whole morning to figure out that she had died. The last one to see her alive had parted with her at midnight, when Nyambura got a client on Koinange Street near the Cardinal Otunga Building. Her phone was not going through since dawn. “I had been calling […]
Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) Advocacy team led a group of paralegals and peer educators to clean Dandora police station with an appeal to the law enforcers to address cases of violence meted on sex workers in the area. BHESP programme manager Simon Mwangi led the team to clean Dandora Police station compound, […]
A total of 221 adolescents girls and young women were reached with HIV prevention messages at BHESP’s exhibition at the Colour Purple concert at Uhuru Gardens. The event that was graced by Nairobi’s first lady Primrose Mbuvi and Ugandan businesswoman Zari Hassan saw 167 young people receiving HIV testing services while 12 received Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis […]
Learning that you are HIV positive can be the most difficult experience one can go through in life. You may get scared, angry or even sad but that is all normal as it is a way of coping with something that can be life-changing. Being HIV positive does not stop one from living a normal […]
Young girls have been urged to consistently and correctly use and adhere to their Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP} drugs in order to avert new HIV infections. Speaking during her 37th birthday celebrations at Huruma, Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme {BHESP} paralegal Mary Mugure said young girls are lucky to have PrEP which is very important […]
The University of Leicester in its 2018 round of International Development Research Fund resources funded a pilot project facilitated by Professor Teela Sanders (Department of Criminology) with the NGO Bar Hostesses Empowerment and Support project (BHESP). The project is pre-work for a much larger research programme which has been sent to the GCRF for consideration […]
Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme {BHESP} Friday joined hundreds of women in Nairobi to protest the brutal murder of Rongo University student Sharon Otieno. Ms. Otieno, a second-year student, was killed and her body dumped in a thicket in Oyugis, Homa Bay County. Led by BHESP’s Paralegal Mary Mugure, the protesters donned white and […]
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) donors visited Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) and commended the organization for working tirelessly towards ensuring sex workers have access to health care and are protected from violence, sexual abuse, and discrimination. Led by AJWS Vice President for Development Margo Bloom, the 16-member team, said they were happy […]