Amref Health Africa in Malawi invites applications from suppliers and service providers who wish to be shortlisted and be included on the list of pre-qualified suppliers for the 2019–2020 financial period. Interested candidates may download pre-qualification/registration of suppliers document HERE.
Read MoreBy Nice Nailantei At the tender age of eight years, I had to escape from home to avoid undergoing the dreaded cut. Within the Maa community, Female Genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) marks the transition from childhood to adulthood, setting the stage for early marriage. For me, this was unacceptable. Despite having to endure several beatings, I stood my ground and refused to undergo the cut even when they told me that all girls had to undergo this rite of passage. In time, I eventually convinced my grandfather, a Maasai Elder, to allow me to skip the rite and continue wi
Read MoreIt is ‘cutting season.’ A few years ago at this time of the year, thousands of girls in Rombo Ward, Oloitokitok, Kajiado County would face the circumciser’s knife. Today, communities in Oloitokitok are slowly embracing Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP) for girls, a ceremony that replaces and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and girls transition into womanhood without being circumcised. After finishing a three-day ARP training programme where they were taught about reproductive health, child rights, harmful and good cultural practises among the Maasai co
Read MoreFrom an HIV health service provider to running the Amref Kibera Health Centre as a Facility in Charge, Winnie Nzioka has served the population of Kibera and its environs for the last 18 years. Her journey as a nurse serving Nairobi’s largest informal settlement is one of endurance and hope. Winnie served with dedication despite the stigma she and her colleagues faced back when the AIDS epidemic had a firm hold in Kenya and was taking the lives of many within the informal setting.
“In 2003, dealing with HIV clients was very challenging. The clients would come to the health f Read More
Amref Health Africa through the Amref International University (AMIU) and Amref Regional Programmes will jointly roll out a course for health journalists in February 2019. This was revealed by the interim Vice Chancellor of AMIU Dr Alice Lakati who said that the course has already been approved by the university’s Senate. A first-of-its-kind, the course gives journalism students, mid-level media practitioners, editors and communications specialists’ gre
Read MoreAmref Health Africa, the largest African-led international organisation on the continent, welcomes the recent findings published in BMJ Global Health that the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting of girls under the age of 14 has fallen significantly in the 29 countries in Africa that were part of the study. Using Demographic Health Survey (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) data sets from Africa, the study finds that the prevalence of FGM/C for girls under 14 dropped the most in East Africa where it went from 71.
Read MoreAmref Health Africa in Kenya joined the world in commemorating the World Toilet Day at Kaptembwo Primary School, celebrating 12 urban villages that have attained Open Defecation Free (ODF) status in Nakuru West sub-county. The 12 are the first urban villages to become ODF in Kenya. The celebrations were presided over by Dr Zakayo Gichuki, Nakuru County Executive Committee Member for Health, and Amref Health Africa in Kenya Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) & Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Programme Director, Eng. Peter Waka. Through the Nakuru Urban Sanitation project, Am
Read MoreToday the world celebrates the World Toilet Day whose theme is ‘’when nature calls’’- a metaphor which represents the call of nature that every person alive has to respond to – defecation. The United Nations dedicated this day to encourage behavior change and the implementation of policies to increase access to sanitation for all with particular emphasis on ending open defecation. After the horrific cholera epidemics of 1849 and 1854, Henry Moule, an English clergyman and other inventors, scientist and
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