Bhesp Biomedical
BHESP is organization that sex workers and women who use drugs form an important epidemiological link for HIV transmission to the general population which is attributed to increased frequency of high risk sex and HIV risk behaviours which render them to be susceptible to acquisition and easy transmission of HIV and AIDS.
Human Rights & Advocacy
BHESP is aware that sex workers, WSW, women who use drugs and bar hostesses in Kenya are often subject to violence, both in their personal lives and at work. This violence is a manifestation of stigma and discrimination which is further demonstrated by the fact that..
Bhesp Blogs
Thika Man Remanded In Attempted Rape Case
A Thika court has remanded an attempted rape suspect after failing to raise a Ksh. 300,000 bond.
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Bhesp advocacy officer defends sexworkers in Kisii
Since its inception back in 1998, Bar Hostess Empowerment & Support Programme (BHESP) biggest pr...
One on One with Nairobi ‘Pimp’
What do you do?
I am a sex worker and I pimp girls. A guy comes to me, he wants a girl, I have a...
Karnataka Health Promotion Trust Staff Visit BHESP’s Wellness...
Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT) staff on Tuesday visited the Bar Hostess Empowerment and S...
A Pill a Day to Prevent HIV
“PrEP is Bonga point for HIV protection,” says Pendo, a sex worker, after I asked her understandi...
Key Population Heroes: Sex Work is Work
My name is Mary Mwangi, and I am an experienced and proud sex worker operating in the capital city o...
Two Murders in Majengo and the Injustice
I could have missed the story but thanks to an IT savvy young man Trevor who works at HOYMAS, a male...
It Happened To Me – Sharing stories, sharing...
Events that happened to her more than a decade ago are still very fresh in her mind. She has always ...
Building Peer Educators Capacity to Fight HIV
Bar Hostess Empowerment & Support Programme (BHESP) has trained 35 female sex workers as peer ed...
Personal testimonies of rights violations experienced by sex...
Kenyan sex workers continue to suffer human rights violations despite a robust constitutional framew...
PEPFAR and DREAMS Partners Announce BHESP Among Winners...
PEPFAR and DREAMS Partners Announce BHESP Among Winners of the $85 Million DREAMS Innovation Challen...
A Friendly Wellness Centre for Sex Workers by...
Female Sex workers continue to face disproportionate levels of violence and discrimination in a numb...
Employee by day, twilight girl by night
Meet Rose Syotini, a lovely 30 year old lady, fair skinned with beautiful alluring brown eyes. Her s...
No Turning Back: Examining Sex Worker-Led Programs That...
In the late 1990s, a group of women working in Nairobi’s bars came together to protest. Th...
Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme
Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) is a sex worker-led organisation that includes...
New PEPFAR report
FOOTPRINTS painted in bright colours on the floor pass through the bustle of the Themba Lethu clinic...
Women Need to Learn About PrEP, Panel Says...
Most women do not know that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) may be an HIV prevention option for them...
STATEMENT FOR SUPPORTING THE RIGHTS OF SEX WORKERS...
On this 8th Day of March, International Women’s Day, the movement of Kenya Sex Workers joins all wom...
Poultry farming turns into money-spinner for Thabiti Young...
A narrow path, iron made houses and open sewers are the scenery that welcomes you to Ghetto village ...
Do the children of female sex workers know...
I randomly engaged 25 Female Sex Workers {FSW} in a conversation so as to answer this disturbing que...
BHESP CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL SEX WORKERS DAY CALLING FOR...
On 2nd June 2017 Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme {BHESP} held an event to celebrate In...
BHESP rolls out PrEP pills to fight HIV...
More than 95 adolescent young girls and women have enrolled for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis {PrEP} acco...
I EMPOWER BAR HOSTESSES AND HELP THEM KNOW...
Peninah mwangi is the executive director of the Bar Hostesses Empowerment and Support Programme
I ...
The new face of HIV prevention
Pre-exposure prophylactics, also known as PrEP, are drugs that can prevent one from being infected w...
Estimating the size of the female Sex Worker...
The high burden of HIV infections among female sex workers (FSW) in sub-Saharan Africa has been long...
BHESP Trains Peer Educators on Mapping and Size...
Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) has trained 150 peer educators on key populati...
BHESP marks International Women’s Day calling for scale-up...
Hundreds of women gathered at the Huruma Grounds to witness a women football tournament organized by...
Puzzle of unsolved murders of sex workers in...
KOINANGE STREET
It had taken her colleagues a whole morning to figure out that she had died. The la...
BHESP advocacy team sweep Dandora police station clean...
Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) Advocacy team led a group of paralegals and ...
BHESP utilizes Color Purple Concert to promote PrEP...
A total of 221 adolescents girls and young women were reached with HIV prevention messages at BHES...
LIVING POSITIVE: JANET’S STORY
Learning that you are HIV positive can be the most difficult experience one can go through in life. ...
AGYW urged to use PrEP in fight against...
Young girls have been urged to consistently and correctly use and adhere to their Pre-exposure Proph...
Working with sex workers in Nairobi
The University of Leicester in its 2018 round of International Development Research Fund resources f...
BHESP Joins women to protest over Sharon Otieno’s...
Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme {BHESP} Friday joined hundreds of women in Nairobi t...
AJWS commends BHESP’s work in advancing Sex Workers...
American Jewish World Service (AJWS) donors visited Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme ...
BHESP participates in Women's Run 2018 to launch...
Bar Hostess Empowerment and Support Programme (BHESP) Sunday joined hundreds of women in Nairobi t...
My Journey
Being the first born in a family of six children meant I had to take care of all the responsibilit...
Increasing PrEP Uptake through Peer Educators
Girls and young women account for 67 percent of new HIV infections among adolescents in sub-Sahara...
BHESP ‘Movie Friday’ campaign to enhance PrEP continuation...
Dressed in a short black dress, her bag resting in her shoulder, Monicah*, 24, climbs the stairway...
Jane Story of Positive Living and Being a...
A constricted path, iron sheet houses, roadside food vendors are the site that greets you when you v...
A Young Voice at the Conference
Mercy Mutonyi is a champion of HIV prevention programming for female sex workers and vulnerable yo...
THE ONLY JOURNEY IS THE JOURNEY WITHIN
“We are in a cage because of the various traumatic experiences we endure in our lives.” Vincent, a...
Championing the right to dignity and access of...
By Mercy Mutonyi, project coordinator for DREAMS Innovations Challenge project at the Bar Hostess Em...
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 2020 #EQUALFOREACH
#EQUALFOREACH was the theme for the day. Women and girls gathered in at Kiboro grounds in preparat...
sex workers struggle as coronavirus spreads
The coronavirus has affected workplaces across the country, especially those who work in casual wo...
World biggest condom maker warns that the global...
Malaysia-based Karex Bhd., which makes one out of every five condoms worldwide has warned of a loo...
Resilience
LOCKDOWN THE COUNTRY, are the words uttered by most Kenyans during this COVID-19 crisis. However, ma...
COVID19:Sex workers livelihood hangs in balance amidst uncertainty...
Vulnerable women such as sex workers are most affected by the lockdown. With bars being closed the...
The Police must investigate all the murders of...
Finally, the murderer of Peninah Wanjiru a member of BHESP has been found. David Megwi was arreste...
COVID 19 WORSENING THE PROBLEM OF TEENAGE PREGNANCIES...
“Times have changed, we need to acknowledge the fact that our kids are already engaging in sex”, s...