Amref Health Africa Public Advisory on Donations of Food and Non- Food Items to Drought Affected Families across Kenya
Some parts of the country experienced rainfall shortage which resulted in reduced food harvest and household insecurity in counties such as as Mandera, Wajir, Turkana, Garissa, Marsabit, Baringo, Tana River, etc. just to mention few. Many households including pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and children under the age of five have little to sustain them over this season as shown in the media reports in the past few weeks. In efforts to support the affected communities, the public has reacted to the situation by reaching out to our affected brothers and sisters with cash and in-kind support o
Read MoreAmref Health Africa Responds to Cyclone Idai Disaster
This image shows the city of Beira in Mozambique, where Cyclone Idai has left a trail of devastation, cutting off electricity and communications, destroying homes, medical facilities and crops. (Source: UN Humanitarian Twitter)~CTV NEWS Cyclone Idai, regarded as one of the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect Africa and the Southern Hemisphere in particular, has resulted in devastating loss of life and large –scale destruction of assets and infrastructure. In the ensuing days, entire villages were submerged underwater as floodwaters rose. Hundreds of people are reported dead
Read MoreViews From Rwanda: Why African countries should improve welfare, capacity of Community Health Workers
“We do the same w Read More BlogLet Me Tell You a Story about Water
By Arthur Mwai, Project Assistant, Child Focused Development Project Kilifi Tell me a story about a place across a bridge where the river with many names snakes its way into the Indian Ocean. A place so hot and humid that it leaves you feeling parched with thirst to a point of delirium. Under the merciless sun and noon day heat, no creature dares make any unnecessary movement. Listless and panting. Goats and cows jostle under the shade of a handful branches of scrawny trees. About three kilometres off the Malindi-Lamu highway is Bandacho village. Windswept fields of sand
Read More News Kenya takes TB Awareness to Schools through Drama
To mark World Tuberculosis (TB) Day,  high school students from Kiambu, Mombasa, Nakuru, Meru and Kisumu were engaged in a two-day TB Awareness Drama festival dubbed ‘It is time for a TB-Free Kenya.' With monetary support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and USAID, the drama festival is an innovative pilot intervention carried out in counties with a high TB burden as part
Read More BlogThe case for universal health coverage, and the critical role for the private sector
While universal health coverage is essential, the implementation of such a system is complex and the private sector has a pivotal role to play in leading the charge. Co-authored by Dr. Githinji Gitahi, Group CEO Amref Health Africa and Dr. Susanne Weissbaecker, Global Head of Access to Medicines, Takeda. Dramatic advances in healthcare and medicine over recent decades have helped increase humanity’s average life expectancy, but the underlying reality today is that access to these innovations is far from equitable. Many people around the world still lack even basic access to ca
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