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78 Girls Graduate into Womanhood without ‘the cut’
Amref Health Africa in Kenya through the Yes I Do (YIDA) project held an Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP) training and graduation ceremony engaging both girls and boys from Indupa Location, Kajiado County. During the four-day training, a total of 78 girls graduated into womanhood at the Alternative Rite of Passage celebration. The week started with training sessions on a variety of topics including reproductive health, the dangers of female genital mutilation (FGM), early marriage, teenage pregnancy, life skills and children’s rights. Girls who had gone through the ARP before and acquire
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Social Enterprises Key to UHC Success In Kenya
Kenya is making commendable progress in the push to attain universal health coverage (UHC) for all its citizens. UHC is about financial protection and equity in access to quality health services that address the most significant causes of disease and death, and ensures that the quality of these services is good enough to improve the health of the people receiving them. A pointer to the progress Kenya is making in UHC is increased NHIF enrolment. In 2018, NHIF membership rose 23 per cent on an annual basis to 7.7 million people, with most of the new members coming from the informal sector. T
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