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  Kilifi PHASE and Water Project scales down successfully after one year of implementation

  H.S.H. Princess Charlene of Monaco, the President of the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation once said “Sport has the ability to change and save lives; to accomplish great destiny and empower people.”

  The words never proved truer than on 1 December 2016 in Kilifi County. Parents, teachers and children gathered at Pine Court Hotel to mark the end of the Kilifi Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Education (PHASE) and Water project in Malindi, Kilifi County. The project was initiated in March 2015 in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Kenya Lifesaving Federa
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  Amref supports 12th ECSACON Biennial Conference

  Amref Health Africa is partnering with the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the ECSACON organising committee to host the 12th ECSACON (East, Central and Southern Africa College of Nursing) Biennial Conference. This is one of the most esteemed forums in the East, Central and South African region for bringing together policy makers and professionals from around the world to promote strategic professional collaboration in nursing and midwifery practice. It will run from September 7-9, 2016, in Nairobi, Kenya at the Safari Park Hotel.

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  Amref supports 12th ECSACON Biennial Conference

  Amref Health Africa is partnering with the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the ECSACON organising committee to host the 12th ECSACON (East, Central and Southern Africa College of Nursing) Biennial Conference. This is one of the most esteemed forums in the East, Central and South African region for bringing together policy makers and professionals from around the world to promote strategic professional collaboration in nursing and midwifery practice. It will run from September 7-9, 2016, in Nairobi, Kenya at the Safari Park Hotel.

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  Innovative Minds Meet to Save Mums and Babies

  The second Innovate for Life meet-up was held this week at the Amref Health Africa Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing together over 120 innovators to discuss and brainstorm on solutions to preventing maternal and infant mortality in Africa.

  The event was a build up from a similar event held in January preceding a hackathon at the upcoming AHAIC - Africa Health Agenda International Conference Hackathon that will
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  Amref Health Africa fosters partnerships with media through a media breakfast held at the Amref Health Africa Headquarters in Nairobi

  Amref Health Africa hosted a media breakfast on Thursday, 10 November 2016 at the Amref Health Africa Headquarters in Nairobi. The event brought together subject-matter experts from Amref Health Africa, GlaxoSmithKline, World Health Organization, Ministry of Health and Nailab to make presentations on key thematic areas, and also interact with the media.

  The media breakfast was opened by Dr Githinji Gitahi, Amref Health Africa’s Group CEO and discussions were based on Africa’s Health Agenda, in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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  Elders Bless Girls who Chose to Skip the Cut

  Boys and girls graduate in colourful alternative rite of passage ceremony

  In a significant shift from tradition, Maasai elders in Loitoktok, in Kenya’s Kajiado County, yesterday blessed 363 girls who had chosen to forgo traditional female genital as a rite of initiation into womanhood. Instead the girls went through an alternative rite of passage ceremony that saw them graduate to womanhood with their cultural dignity intact, but without having to undergo the harmful cut.

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  Amref mourns loss of devoted German founder

  Amref Health Africa is mourning the loss of the founder of the organisation’s office in Germany, Leonore Semler, who passed away peacefully last Friday at her home in Munich. She was 95.

  In 1963, when Amref Health Africa founder Sir Michael Wood travelled to Europe to raise funds for the organisation’s work and mission, he met Leonore Semler, the wife of a prominent European Community politician Dr Johannes Semler, and convinced her to start an Amref office in Germany to raise funds for work in Africa. A fe

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  Amref Health Africa Launches a New Project on Maternal and Child Health in Siaya County, Kenya

  Amref Health Africa in Kenya on November 4, 2016 launched a four year project (2016-2020) aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of mothers and children in four sub-counties of Siaya County namely Alego-Usonga, Ugunja, Ugenya and Bondo. 

   
  Dubbed the Canada-Africa Initiative to Address Maternal, New born and Child Mortality (CAIA-MNCM), this project   is financed by the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada at US$ 4 Million. The project is expected t

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