INTRODUCTION Primary Health Care (PHC) Primary Health Care (PHC) is considered: • Highly effective • Low cost • Culturally appropriate and • Best way of providing quality health care (ewww.who.int/topics/primary_health_care/en/) These are the benefits that go to the community where primary health care is the way of providing health care. This is possible because primary healthcare places emphasis on: • Preventive medicine • Birth assistance • First aid • Distribution of basic medicines • Nutrition • Clean water • Sanitation and • Health education The main vehicle that makes advance primary health care are community health workers. These are community members (CHWs) who have undergone 6 to 9 months of intensive training and are supervised, undergo regular training and are able to manage 75% of all illnesses (diseases), health problems both of individuals and the community. The CHW's coverage area includes: • First aid for injuries • Immunization • Vaccination • Antibiotic provision • Oral rehydration therapy • Growth monitoring • Nutrition education/information • Micronutrient supplementation (vitamin A, iron) • Health maternal and infantile There is a referral procedure, in which the healthcare professional can refer seriously ill patients to the nearest healthcare facility. Countries such as China, Costa Rica, Cuba and other African countries have very successfully used the PHC model of healthcare delivery, which has led to the reduction of infant, child and maternal mortality rates and increased overall life expectancy and other health indicators. .When national health systems, composed of health facilities, doctors, health personnel, nutritionists and public health workers around well-trained and motivated health workers, are able to provide above-average health care... halfway through paper.. ....2 USAID health policy project• KNBS(2003). The Kenya Household Health Survey• Wamai RG(2009). Kenya's healthcare system: situation analysis and lasting challenges. JMAJ. 52(2):134-140• ewww.who.int/topics/primary_health_care/en/• www.un.org/en/documents/udhr• www.who.int/healthsystems/.../abuja_declarati.• www .who.int/.../ContractingPrimaryHealtServ..• http://www.who.int/healthsystems/universal_health_coverage/en/• WHO(2013). National cooperation strategy in summary • WHO (2011). The Abuja Declaration: ten years later • MOH (2005). Reverse trends. Kenya's Second National Health Sector Strategic Plan (NHSSP II 2005-2010).• Ramare GNV, Chepkoech R. Worke NW(2013). Improving universal primary healthcare in Kenya. A case study of the Health Sector Services Fund. World Bank. Washington DC.• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Helsinki.