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George’s Story
George Olali is well known and liked in Nairobi’s Kibera slum. He is a community health worker attached to Amref Health Africa’s Kibera Community Health Centre. George has been living with HIV for close to 10 years now, and has been on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for three years.
George Olali visits patients living with HIV. He was trained by Amref Health Africa as a counsellor an
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Asrat’s Story
Dr. Asrat is a surgeon with Amref Health Africa. Dr Asrat Mengiste arrives at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi, Tanzania. It’s 8am, and already 70 patients are lined up for a consultation. In the operating room are 20 local doctors
Read MoreDr Mengiste talks them through every action and explains every decision. After four days he will have operated on 40 patients and passed his knowle -
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Christine Akello’s Story
AKELLO CHRISTINE 28 years of age is a qualified enrolled midwife working in a remote sub county of Lalogi where the Health Center 1V she works in is located and it is about 145 kms from Gulu Town. Christine, just like most of the affected persons from the northern part of Uganda, suffered from the LRA atrocities that caused socio economic and psychological setbacks twenty years ago.
Christine was determined to excel in her studies with the intention to come back home to support the rehabilitation of the tattered health sector. She strongly f
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Renewed hope for fistula survivors in Eastern Uganda
Inspired by the fistula repair programme initiated by Amref Health Africa as a part of Uganda’s Staying Alive Project, women in the Teso Region of Eastern Uganda have come together to form a support group to help them come to terms with their new lifestyles, as well as improve their livelihoods since their reparative surgeries.
Based in Kateta in the Serere District, the Aipecitoi Women’s group brings together resources from each member to help develop small-scale income generating activities and encourage st
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Everything Looks Beautiful From Behind a Smile
Culture, though beautiful, can be enslaving even for the most liberal of minds. It limits our perceptions and shapes our attitudes. It can pick out the worst even in the best of situations. Hawaro Esayiyas and his family have been more than acquainted with this concept.
Seven years ago, in a small village near Butajira town, 300km from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, Esayiyas and his wife were blessed with a baby girl. However, their jubilation was cut short by shock and frustration that seemed to numb the hands of time. Even their love could not allow t Read More -
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Helping Communities Tackle Malaria: Resty Nsamba
Resty Nsamba says that she is 30 years old, but her experiences and level of respect in her community suggest that she is much older. Selected as a Village Health Team member by her village, Kyeyindula, in Kakooge sub county, Nakasongola district, Uganda in 2009, Resty had begun providing community health services in September
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We Hear Gunshots As Often As We Hear Ringtones from Mobile Phones
"My name is Taban Charles Millinon. I graduated as a clinical officer from the National Health Training Institute in Maridi, South Sudan in 2008 through training received from AMREF. I am from Kajo Keji County. I undertook my one-year internship at Yei Civil Hospital before joining Meltesa International.
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Touching Lives through Clinical Outreach Services
Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia has been running a clinical outreach programme since 2006 to provide specialist health care to patients in rural parts of the country who would otherwise not be able to access the services.
During a recent mission to the Debre Markos Hospital located in the Amhara regional state, 300kms from Addis Ababa in the outreach team met Bizuayehu Tarekegn, 20, who had a huge mass protruding from her back. She had kept the mass a secret for a long time, fearing the reaction of neighbours. Read More
Dr Mengiste talks them through every action and explains every decision. After four days he will have operated on 40 patients and passed his knowle
