Jane Achieng lives in a small village in Kisumu County with her husband and three children. In 2019, GLOBCOM’s mobile HIV testing outreach reached her community for the first time.
“I had always been afraid to get tested,” Jane recalls. “But the GLOBCOM health workers came right to our village. They were kind. They explained everything without judgment.”
Jane and her husband were both tested. Her husband was found to be HIV-positive. Rather than despair, GLOBCOM’s counseling team walked them through next steps — connecting him to ART (antiretroviral therapy) support at the local health facility and enrolling Jane in regular testing and psychosocial support.
Today, her husband is on treatment with an undetectable viral load. Their children were tested and are all negative. Jane now volunteers with GLOBCOM, helping to bring other families in her community forward for testing.
“GLOBCOM gave us knowledge, and knowledge gave us life. I will never forget what they did for my family,” she says.
Jane’s story is one of over 3,000 individuals GLOBCOM reached through HIV outreach in 2022 alone.