Jhpiego, the international health nonprofit and affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, will expand on its work in eastern Kenya thanks to a $100 million award from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Jhpiego has been working on health projects in Kenya for four years.  The group will lead the “APHIAplus Health Service Delivery” project over the next five years with the new award that will ensured easier access to care for the impoverished and underserved in community and hospital settings. Services will include family planning and HIV.

“Jhpiego is thrilled to be chosen for this project and join our Kenyan partners in providing innovative health strategies to improve health care services for those most in need and support Kenyans in carrying out this most important, life-changing work,” said Leslie Mancuso, Jhpiego president and chief executive, in a statement.

For the past four years, Jhpiego has led the $33.9 million, USAID-funded AIDS, Population and Health Integrated Assistance (APHIA II) project in Eastern Kenya. In that time, the program has counseled and tested over 1.1 million Kenyans. More than 8,000 of those who tested positive have begun antiretroviral treatment in the last two years.