Kenya Tourism Board launches campaign targeting East Europe

Jun.30.2009 Uncategorized (0)

29 June 2009

Kenya Ministry of Tourism has kicked off a marketing campaign targeting Eastern Europe.

The campaign, which started off in Russia this week, will run until August and aims at increasing the number of tourists visiting Kenya from non-traditional tourist source markets.

Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the Sh16 million ($200,000) set for the campaign, will be used for the initial launch and development of the Russian market.

Balala, who is leading a marketing delegation to Russia, Czech Republic and Poland, said the investment will focus on consumer advertising and placement of billboards at strategic points in the city of Moscow.

HIV/AIDS: Door To Door Campaign Begins in Kitale Kenya

Jun.25.2009 Kenya Health (0)

Just how can you feel when one morning while you are working on your farm a stranger approaches you and request you to go through a HIV/AIDS test?

Many of us may not know how to respond. But to residents of Kwanza and Cherangany it has become a joy of being tested when no one is around to know about your HIV/AIDS status.

Trans AID Africa (TAA) NGO which is working in Kitale town rolled out its exercise to test HIV/AIDS in April this year. The co-odinator of the NGO Mr. Charles Maina says that they arrived at the decision to carry out door to door campaign after they realized that many people were not going for voluntary counselling that was offered by government health facilities commonly known as VCT. He also added that poverty among communities living in the larger Trans Nzoia was a contributing factor. He added that the disabled were finding it difficulty to travel to health facilities which are many miles away from their homes. He added that there was raising concern after a study revealed that HIV/AIDS was increasing among married couples.
Maina says that it is because of this reasons that his NGO together with Milimani Pambazuko and Kesogon Youth Groups rolled out a programme under HIV counselling and testing called Shamba to Shamba in Kwanza District and house to house in Cherangany of Trans Nzoia East District.

Maina says the programme has been scheduled to take 12 months which he says his group intends to cover at least 10,000 house holds. Trans Nzoia District is one of the white settlers

AU

Jun.25.2009 Uncategorized (0)

African states must speed up economic integration to deal with challenges posed by the global economic crisis and mitigate future external shocks, the African Union commissioner for economic affairs has said.

While Africa was largely shielded from the initial fallout from the banking crisis, economies already hit by high food and oil prices are now suffering from lower commodity exports and remittances from abroad as the global economy slows down.

There are several regional trade blocs in Africa such as the East African Community and the Economic Community of West African States, but progress on free movement of goods, capital and people has often been hampered by national interests.