The Health Programme of Youth Alive! Kenya seeks to reduce the burden of disease in Kenya by supporting the role of young people and local health systems in the prevention and management of disease and general health development. The programme works under two key components of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) and HIV & AIDS.

The ASRH component seeks to improve health and social awareness of young people and facilitate their access to appropriate and user-friendly reproductive health information and services to enable a fulfilling reproductive health life. The HIV & AIDS component seeks to reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among young people in Kenya and mitigate the socio-economic impact of the pandemic on young people and their communities.

Past, continuing and planned activities under the Health Programme of Youth Alive! Kenya include:

The Window of Hope Project
Youth Alive! Kenya implemented a successful adolescent development programme that worked to model and remodel adolescent behaviour by enhancing their capacity to make informed choices on issues of sexuality to ensure the full enjoyment of reproductive lives. The project ran in 8 selected secondary schools in Nairobi province working directly with over 940 students, and 21 teachers and reaching over 6000 students as secondary beneficiaries. The project was implemented in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and the National AIDS Control Council.

The Right to Life Project
The R2L Project, was a work place project targeting the Youth Alive! Kenya staff and members of our network of youth groups. The work place project was implemented with support from and in partnership with VSO Jitolee. Among the outputs of the project was the Youth Alive! Kenya HIV/AIDS Work Place Policy that is still being implemented. The policy is aimed at improving responses to HIV/AIDS within Youth Alive! Kenya and its network of youth groups and still being implemented.

The Custodial Care Health Promotion Project (CCHPP)
The CCHPP is a project aimed at improving health and mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS for children and youth in statutory custodial care. The project which began in September 2009 has been working to increase HIV/AIDS awareness and increase demand for appropriate health services among children and youth in statutory custodial institutions, while improving the capacity of the staff to better handle HIV/AIDS and related issues among the children and youth. The project is being implemented in Kirigiti Girls Rehabilitation School, Dagoretti Girls Rehabilitation School, Kabete Boys Rehabilitation School, Getathuru National Assessment and Classification Centre and Nairobi Children Remand Home.