The Gender Violence Recovery Centre (GVRC) is a non-profit making, non-partisan; charitable trust of the Nairobi Women’s Hospital (NWH) which is a private institution that specialises in obstetrics and gynaecology services and seeks to provide holistic care to women and their families.
GVRC’s main purpose is to bring back meaning to survivor’s lives and their families. We do this through the provision of free medical treatment and psychosocial support to survivors of gender based violence. The treatment offered includes Post Exposure Prophylaxes (PEP) given within 72 hours of assault to help prevent infection of HIV/AIDS. Other treatments include prevention of pregnancy, prevention of sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis B vaccine. The medical support given is the basic treatment for survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV) that includes emotional, physical, sexual and psychological abuse. It is important to note that GVRC has certain exclusions to the medical services offered, and this information is available at any of our centres. Since inception in March 2001, GVRC has treated over 19,000 survivors of gender based violence. The centre currently receives an average of 250 survivors per month with 35% being girls, 5% boys, 57% women and 3% men.

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