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‘The Cut’ Scoops International Film Award
A film developed by beneficiaries of the Amref Dagoretti Child Protection and Development Centre has received an international film award. ‘The Cut’, a film about a young boy trying to save his younger sister from female genital mutilation (FGM) and a forced early marriage received the Award for Best Feature at the second edition of the Africa Diaspora Cinema Festival held in Florence, Italy from July 5 to 8, 2018. The Amref Health Africa in Kenya supported Dagoretti Film School partnered wi
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Another Win for Amref – Dr Elizabeth Wala Elected to KEPSA Health Sector Board
Amref Health Africa in Kenya’s Dr Elizabeth Wala has been elected Vice-Chair of the Kenya Healthcare Federation (KHF). Founded in 2004, KHF is the health sector board for the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), and works with health care providers, hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers and insurers to promote strategic public-private partnerships and engaging the government and all relevant stakeholders towards achieving national access to quality health care. KHF’s membership includes medical associations, professional associatio
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Makueni County to test innovative model for primary health clinics in collaboration with Amref and Philips
Project seeks to improve access to health care for over 20,000 people in the county
28 June 2018, Makueni: The Makueni County Government is set to study the outsourcing of operations of three primary health clinics in the county following a recently concluded agreement with Amref Health Africa. Under the agreement, Amref Health Africa will offer capacity building and health worker training working with Phili Read More -
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Amref to play key role in Universal Health Coverage
By Hezron Ochiel Amref Health Africa has outlined proposals to help accelerate the attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The health institution has partnered with Kenya’s National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to fast-track the scale-up of UHC by using Community Health Workers (CHWs) as agents for NHIF registration at community level. Speaking during the UHC Financing Forum in Washington in April
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Beyond dangerous waters
One area in Machinga, Malawi, has spent almost 60 years without access to clean water, but all that is about to change. It was a bright Wednesday morning, that day in early May. Men were grading their tobacco in readiness for the market. A few school-going children playing truant were roaming up and about Nkowa Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Ngokwe in Machinga district, south east Malawi. For the women, however, May 2, 2018 was a different day, a glorious day, a time for celebration. One of the women is 38-year-old Janet Black. She is fiercely protective of her children
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Amref Health Africa to Host the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center
Following a highly competitive partner selection process, Amref Health Africa has been chosen to host the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) — a new initiative aimed at strengthening strategic health purchasing in sub-Saharan Africa to get more value for money from health spending on health services and medicines on behalf of populations by actively making transparent and efficient decisions about which services and medicines to buy,
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Beat Plastic Pollution – Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia’s Initiative on the Move
As we are marking this year’s World Environment Day with a theme ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’, Amref Health Africa through its water and sanitation (WASH) program is initiating a new intervention that turns plastic waste, one of the biggest environmental challenges, to a business opportunity for youth income generating groups in the Akaki and Yeka sub-cities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The core idea of this ‘Beat Plastic Pollution’ initiative is to reduce plas
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Health Accelerator programme for African start-ups now open for applications
The Innovate for Life Fund is designed by Amref Health Africa to support home-grown innovations for better health in Africa May 30: Nairobi, Kenya: Applications are now being accepted for Amref Health Africa’s Innovate for Life Fund, a five-month accelerator program specifically designed for African health entrepreneurs. Now in its second year, the Innovate for Life Fund aims to support African entrepreneurs to accelerate home-grown health solutions for the African market.
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