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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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Relieving Women from the Burden of HIV
According to a UNAIDS Report, 19 million out of the 35 million people living with the HIV virus today do not know that they have the virus. Furthermore, women continue to carry the greatest burden of the virus with young women getting infected almost ten years earlier than their male counterparts. For Felister, a 23 year old mother of two children, these numbers are more than statistics, they are her reality. The year was 2012, and Felister had a lot to look forward to in life. She was recently married and had just delivered her first child with her husband when he fell ill. At the hospital
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Three Days’ Walk to Safe Birth
When Nasenyana*, a mother of six, went into labour on February 19, 2016, she looked forward to an uneventful delivery. But by late afternoon, long after her water broke, Nasenyana’s baby had not come, in spite of the gentle nudging of the traditional birth attendant that she push harder. Sensing trouble, the birth attendant and Nasenyana’s friends recommended that she seek medical help. Nasenyana was in a dilemma. Not only did the labouring mother need her husband’s permission to leave home, but she also had to walk in pain for about 120 kilometres to the nearest health care facility,
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Restoring Her Dignity: A Health Systems Approach to the Management of Female Genital Fistula
Maternal mortality and morbidity has remained high in sub-Saharan Africa mainly due to poor access to quality reproductive health services, poverty and low education levels, lack of equity, poor road and communication infrastructure and grossly inadequate health services. Female Genital Fistula is one of the most devastating of all pregnancy-related disabilities and mainly affects poor women in under-resourced regions. Fistula mostly occurs as a result of prolonged obstructed labour coupled with lack of skilled medical care, and usually leads to permanent incontinence - a continuous leakage
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West Pokot Makes Landmark Move by Passing Kenya’s First Ever Stand-alone County Facility Improvement Fund Bill
In a ground breaking move to increase investments in health towards universal health coverage (UHC), West Pokot County has enacted Kenya’s first stand-alone County Facility Improvement Fund (FIF) Bill.
With the support of Amref Health Africa in Kenya, West Pokot County set out to ring-fence revenues generated by health facilities for use in improving health infrastructure and other essential services towards UHC through the FIF bill.
Following a consultative meeting by health stakeholders w
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Applying the Social Enterprise Approach for Sustainable WASH Solutions
Located in Dalalekutuk Ward of Kajiado County, Ngatu Shopping Center was faced with challenges of water access as is the case across many other parts of the County. Kajiado receives minimal rainfall and is characterised by cyclical episodes of prolonged drought that exacerbate the water situation. As a result, rain-fed water sources such as earth dams, roof catchments and scoop holes dry up in the dry season and therefore cannot meet the water needs of the community. Through the County Government of Kajiado, the community of Dalalekutuk drilled the Elerai borehole in 2012 with a view to pro
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