Vasectomy in Kenya

NSVI’s Domestic Vasectomy Program in Kenya is directed by Dr. Charles Ochieng. Dr. Ochieng became a role model for East African men when he underwent his own vasectomy in 2009, a story featured in the Daily Nation, one of the major news magazines in Africa. Given the difficulty he had finding a provider, he decided to become one himself. He came all the way to Florida for training in 2010. In 2011, he received a certificate for his presentation on Vasectomy in Kenya at the International Conference on NSV in Goa, India. To learn how to direct an NSVI Vasectomy Mission, Charles came to the Philippines with NSVI in 2012. Charles made all arrangements for NSVI to conduct three missions in Kenya in 2012/2013 and to serve as host of World Vasectomy Day 2016 and a follow-up NSVI Mission in 2018, all described in the links to the right. While his family lives in Kisumu, Charles works as a hospitalist at Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, and was the Winner of the Huduma Bora Award for 2016.

Enhancing awareness of NSV in Kenya with an outstanding website, Dr. Ochieng performs vasectomies for private patients at Family Care Medical Center Clinic on the 5th Floor of Phoenix House on Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi.

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For those men who cannot afford the Ksh 25000 fee for private patients, NSVI will “sponsor” those men (provide a “FREE” vasectomy) by paying the participants of the Kenya Domestic Program about the same as it pays those of the Philippines and Haiti programs.

In order to get reimbursed from NSVI, Dr. Ochieng must submit a Payment Log (Excel file) and a Patient Log, (Excel file), documenting the names of the patients and the facilitators/promoters.

The following table shows the number of vasectomies performed in Kenya with NSVI support. Dr. Ochieng has been reimbursed and has distributed part of those funds to patients (as income replacement), to the facility and to his team members.

The service site in Nairobi for Dr. Ochieng’s private patients and for the NSVI-sponsored vasectomy program for low-income men is the Phoenix House facility in Nairobi and at the FHOK Clinic in Kisumu.
For a man to attain a “FREE” (NSVI-sponsored) vasectomy at a Domestic Team vasectomy clinic, he must agree to share his demographic information (including phone number and e-mail address) with the NSVI Board (via Dr. Ochieng’s reports/logs) so that we can follow trends and prevail upon that man to serve as motivator and counselor for other men. Any man who wants more privacy/anonymity may see Dr. Ochieng as a private patient in his Phoenix House office and pay his customary fee of Ksh 25000.

For additional information about vasectomy, please see our Vasectomy Page and Dr. Ochieng’s Counseling Video.

To set up a vasectomy as a private-pay patient, please see Dr. Ochieng’s website.
To set up a “Free” NSVI-sponsored vasectomy in Nairobi, please go to the Contact Us page of NSVI President Dr. Doug Stein, and indicate your name, your e-mail address, and your desire for a “Vasectomy in Kenya”.

NSVI is hoping that the Kenya Domestic Team can serve as a model for the efficient delivery of vasectomy services throughout Kenya and beyond.