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Lassa Fever Outbreak: My Assignment with WHO in Nigeria
“I am writing this blog in Nigeria, where I have been deployed by the  World Health Organization (WHO) as an Infection Prevention and Control Specialist (IPC) to join the rapid response team and provide technical support in the current Lassa fever outbreak here. I started work here on March 13 and will be here until April 15. I’m working in Edo state. My role is to ensure priorities and activities for infection prevention and control are managed effectively within the overall outbreak. I am assessing the infection prevention and control capacities a
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Amref M&E Specialist Receives Fellowship at Prestigious University of California, Berkeley
Mr Samuel Muhula, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Manager at Amref Health Africa in Kenya and a PhD candidate at Jomo Kenyatta Univeristy of Agriculture and Technology received a semester-long (January to May, 2018) East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) fellowship to study impact evaluation and global economic development at the University of California, Berkeley. The EASST Collaborative, which is administered by the Cente
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FRAUD ALERT
It has come to our attention that there are people who are circulating false employment adverts on various social media platforms with regard to purported job openings at Amref Health Africa and the Ministry of Health in Kenya. This is to notify members of the public that ALL its jobs are advertised on this website at www.amref.org, Relief Web, Devex and the national dailies where applicable. Duly note that Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any f
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Personal Stories
Dorcus Indalo Personal Story
In the last 13 years that Dorcus Indalo has been working with Amref Health Africa in Kenya, she has gone from supporting HIV and AIDS project in one of Africa’s largest urban slums, to working with Maasai and Kamba communities to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in Kajiado and Kitui counties. Today, she rubs shoulders with legislators and policy makers at the County and National level to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights. With so many years of experience, and such a variety of work, it’s no wonder that Dorcus has three mome
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The agony of getting clean water: Muli Mboya’s story
One part of the country has plenty of water. The other has not had it for several months. The differences go deeper than that. Muli Mboya, 13, a resident of Mwingi understands this paradox pretty well. When the twilight fades to blackness, it lights a fire to Muli’s hearts. It burns away her joy and happiness she got from school. The eerie darkness of every night means walking for hours and hours with her little brother to look for water. It is 2am and she is already wielding a whip to urge her two donkeys forward, Muli has woken up earlier than everyone else in the village and is rushing
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Amref partners with colleges to train medical personnel
Amref Health Africa has partnered with the Malawi College of Health Sciences (MCHS) and Ekwendeni College of Health Sciences (Ecohs), to provide eLearning training courses for nurse-midwife technicians. The two pilot colleges plan to enrol about 40 students each on the two-year course starting June this year who will graduate with a diploma in nursing and midwifery. The targeted nurse-midwife technicians, who will become registered nurse-midwives after completion of studies, are expected to continue work
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E-Plus in partnership with AMREF Flying Doctors Rescues a Five Month Baby Specialized Treatment
Tuesday, 20 March 2018, Nairobi: Emergency Plus Medical Services (E-Plus) in partnership with AMREF Flying Doctors has carried out an air evacuation for a five-month old baby with a congenital extra-cranial tumour from Mandera county to Nairobi for a specialized medical treatment. The baby was received by E-Plus Medical Director, Dr. Muthoni Ntonjira at Wilson Airport and transfered to Kenyatta National Hospital for a neurosurgical care by Dr. Samuel Njiru, a neurosurgeon and Dr. Susan Nabulindo, a paediatric anaesthesiologist. Ms Julie Gichuru of Arimus Media reached ou
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Generous travelers fund 1,000 more care providers in Africa
Thanks to generous donations by travelers at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and the efforts of airport staff, who together raised a total of 214,700 euros in 2017, Amref Flying Doctors can train 1,000 additional care providers in Africa and give some 500,000 people access to healthcare. Since January 2017, Royal Schiphol Group and Amref Flying Doctors have been working together to raise money and highlight the need for better healthcare in Africa. As well as collection points where travelers can donate money in the terminals, Schiphol staff have raised funds through various act
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