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  Zambia Nurse and Life-Skill Training Programme

  Like many places in Africa, Zambia suffers from consistent underdevelopment. Every year approximately 59,000 women die in child birth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic significantly contributes to lower life expectancy, thus, lowering population growth rates, and at the same time raise infant mortality and death rates, in turn, changing the distribution of population by age and sex. The infant mortality rate is just over 70 for every 1,000 live births. To combat these significant challenges, more health care professionals, particularly nurses and midwives, are needed. The Zambia Nurse and Life Skills

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  Health Workers Count – the Story a Community Health Worker in Afar

  Rahma Salih, 25, is one of the midwifery program graduates, who received a series of training supported by Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia. Rahma was passionate about helping women as they labor and give birth. This is why she joined the health workforce as a midwife. She grew up witnessing pregnant women in Afar region refusing to go to health posts just to avoid any physical contact with male health workers during labor and delivery. “I began to be worried about this, among several other things, has become one of the reasons why women avoid going to health facilities. I was worried because

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  Water and Sanitation clubs in primary schools in northern Uganda – Monica, 15 year old student

  Madi Kiloc Primary School is situated in the Lamwo district of northern Uganda. It is a very remote and under developed region of Uganda, which suffered from almost two decades of civil war. An estimated 1.8 million people were displaced from their homes and forced to live in camps across northern Uganda. Since 2006 people began returning back to their homes in the north. Infrastructure throughout the north was left devasted after the war but people are now rebuilding their lives. Access to clean water and santation facilities remains low in northern Uganda with 80% of schools having no water

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  Uganda Upgrading eLearning Midwives project equips nurses with skills to lower maternal and newborn mortality in Uganda

  Her presence in the maternity ward is always noticed. She is one of the most appreciated midwives in Kabale Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda. At 32, Assumpta Namugumya has created a name for herself in her passionate care of patients, especially mothers and children in the hospital. “I am at peace when I see Assumpta, because I know that she will do whatever she can to treat a patient,” explains Jovita Asingwire, a supervisor in the health facility. “I graduated with a Certificate in Midwifery back in 2009, and started working immediately,” Assumpta narrates. But back then, I did

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  15 eLearning students awarded diploma in midwifery in Uganda

  On Friday 4th May 2017, Amref Health Africa in Uganda participated in the 8th graduation ceremony of Mulago School of Nursing and Midwifery. The graduation ceremony was one of a kind as it included several eLearning students, enrolled in the Uganda Upgrading eLearning Midwives project, and trained through the Amref Health Africa eLearning solution. The aim of the project is to train more midwives and nurses in Uganda to diploma level to help improve the maternal and child health indicators of the rural-based and disadvantaged populations in Uganda. With just one trained midwife for every 5,00

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  Sales Executive

  Job Title: Sales Executive

  Organisation: AMREF Flying Doctors

  Ref No.: AFD/SM/08-05/2017

  Location: Nairobi, Kenya Deadline: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Email application to: [email protected] >>Click here for details
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  Business Systems Officer

  Job Title: Business Systems Officer

  Organisation: AMREF Flying Doctors

  Ref No.: AFD/fa/10-05/2017

  Location: Nairobi, Kenya Deadline: Monday, May 22, 2017 Email application to: [email protected] >>Click here for details
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• Research Papers

  Community and provider perceptions of traditional and skilled birth attendants providing maternal health care for pastoralist communities in Kenya: a qualitative study BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 16:43 DOI 10.1186/s12884-016-0828-9

  Title: Community and provider perceptions of traditional and skilled birth attendants providing maternal health care for pastoralist communities in Kenya: a qualitative study BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 16:43 DOI 10.1186/s12884-016-0828-9
  Authors: Abbey Byrne, Tanya Caulfield, Pamela Onyo, Josephat Nyagero, Alison Morgan, John Nduba and Michelle Kermode.
  Date published: March 1, 2016
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