| KDHS | Kenya Demographic and Health Survey |
| MCMC | Markov Chain Monte Carlo |
| ICAR | Intrinsic Conditional Autoregressive |
| U5CM | Under Five Child Mortality |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| KNBS | Kenya National Bureau of Statistics |
| NACC | National Aids Control Council |
| NCPD | National Council for Population and Development |
| KEMRI | Kenya Medical Research Institute |
| MDG | Millenium Development Goals |