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ii.
a Code of Practice on Disability Mainstreaming in Public Service;
the establishment of a cash transfer program for vulnerable older persons
aged 65 and above and persons with severe disabilities with the targeted
beneficiaries receiving a monthly stipend of Ksh 2000 to cushion them
against poverty;
a pilot programme for a health cover under the NHIF for older persons
benefiting from the cash transfer, involving 500 beneficiaries who are
spread across all Counties covering older persons on inpatient and
outpatient, including reasonable accommodation;
ensuring that all public organizations include measurable targets in their
performance contract every year on actions they intend to take to
mainstream persons with disabilities (PWDs);
the National Action Plan on Accessibility and Disabilities Rights which is
a practical step in establishing a framework for a coordinated approach to
implementing the PWDs Act, and related legislations touching on PWDs;
and
subsidiary legislations to give effect to the PWDs Act, including: The PWDs
(Access to Employment, Services and Facilities) Regulations 2009; The
PWDs (Cost Care, Support and Maintenance) Regulations 2009; The PWDs
(Registration) Regulations 2009; The PWDs (Income Tax Deductions and
Exemptions) Order 2010; and the PWDs (National Development Fund for
Persons with Disabilities) (Conduct of Business and Affairs of the Board of
Trustees) Regulations 2009.
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vi.
HIV/AIDs
21. The Commission commends Kenya for:
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the various legislative, policy, administrative and other measures reported
to have been undertaken to give effect to the right to health, and in
particular, for the prevention, management and control of HIV and AIDS,
as well as for the legal protection and access to legal remedies for People
Living With HIV (PLHIV) and those at risk, vulnerable to and affected by
HIV;
the development of a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework 2014-15 to
2018-19 which provides a monitoring and evaluation framework for the
HIV programme and Kenya AIDS Strategic Framework in general;
the establishment of the Equity (HIV and AIDS) Tribunal under the HIV
and AIDS Prevention and Control Act, to determine complaints arising
from breaches of this law;
free treatment services to all PLHIV in all public health facilities, including
free testing, maternal health care, ARVs, free assistance from the HIV
Tribunal and the provision of free Mobile Clinics; and
the Anti Stigma Campaign of September 2015 which seeks to fast track the
HIV response to end new infections, AIDs related deaths and stigma and
discrimination in adolescents and young people, with an objective to reduce
stigma and discrimination by 25%.