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Personal Stories
Milestones Courtesy of Partnership between Amref and the Community
David Nakaya is a Community Health Volunteer from Ekaita sub- location, Ekaita Community Unit in Emuhya Sub County, Vihiga County. Ekaita Community Unit (CU) has a total of ten CHVs who were recruited in a chief’s baraza by community members and David is one of the ten CHV members successfully selected by the community members in 2012. He doubles up as a farmer and a preacher, roles he attributes to his success in his duties as a CHV as he is publicly known and thus stands a better chance to influence the community. He appreciates the good working relation with Amref Health Africa an
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Amref impacting the health of communities through Community Health Volunteers
Kenya and most developing nations face a dire shortage of human resources for health, a situation that is worsened by the overwhelming demands of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Community health volunteers (CHVs) play a role in creating demand for health care services, disease prevention, treatment and care. Amref Health Africa in Kenya with funding from Global Fund is implementing a pilot project for integrating HIV, TB and malaria through Community Health System Strengthening (CSS) in Emuhaya sub-county. Emuhaya is one of five Sub Counties in Vihiga County with a population of about 1
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Amref Health Africa Calls for Legal Reforms to Deliver on Universal Health Coverage
Amref Health Africa in Kenya has called for legal reform and enactment of legislation to support the realisation of universal health coverage (UHC). The priority areas include operationalising the Kenya Health Financing Strategy, domestication of County Public Participation Acts, enactment of County Facility Improvement Fund Bills and enactment and recognition of Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) as facilitated by the Community Health Service Bill. Speaking at the 4th Annual Legislative Summit held in Kisumu County, Amref Health Africa in Kenya’s Country Director Dr Meshack
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Universal Health Coverage and Adolescent-Responsive Health Systems for Adolescents Living with HIV
By Maria Tororey, Paediatrics and Adolescents Officer, Amref Health Africa in Kenya Universal Health Coverage strategies aim to avail appropriate, effective and affordable interventions to improve adolescent health. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), to make progress toward universal health coverage, a number of transitions in service delivery, workforce capacity and financing will be needed. Adolescents living with HIV and AIDS (ALHIV) represent a vulnerable group as they not only experience issues that affect people living with HIV, but also those that affect adole
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Amref Celebrates 19 Years of Partnership with the Italian Government through the Dagoretti Child Protection Centre
Amref Health Africa and the Italian Government, through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, celebrated 19-years of partnership at an event held at the Panafric Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. Over the last 19 years, Amref Health Africa in Kenya with support from the Italian Government has been implementing a community-based child protection programme in Dagoretti. The project closes out successfully, having touched the lives of more than 26,000 vulnerable children and their families, particularly those living on the streets within 17 informal settlements of Dagoretti North and South
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Amref Health Africa Public Advisory on Donations of Food and Non- Food Items to Drought Affected Families across Kenya
Some parts of the country experienced rainfall shortage which resulted in reduced food harvest and household insecurity in counties such as as Mandera, Wajir, Turkana, Garissa, Marsabit, Baringo, Tana River, etc. just to mention few. Many households including pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and children under the age of five have little to sustain them over this season as shown in the media reports in the past few weeks. In efforts to support the affected communities, the public has reacted to the situation by reaching out to our affected brothers and sisters with cash and in-kind support o
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Let Me Tell You a Story about Water
By Arthur Mwai, Project Assistant, Child Focused Development Project Kilifi Tell me a story about a place across a bridge where the river with many names snakes its way into the Indian Ocean. A place so hot and humid that it leaves you feeling parched with thirst to a point of delirium. Under the merciless sun and noon day heat, no creature dares make any unnecessary movement. Listless and panting. Goats and cows jostle under the shade of a handful branches of scrawny trees. About three kilometres off the Malindi-Lamu highway is Bandacho village. Windswept fields of sand
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Kenya takes TB Awareness to Schools through Drama
To mark World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, high school students from Kiambu, Mombasa, Nakuru, Meru and Kisumu were engaged in a two-day TB Awareness Drama festival dubbed ‘It is time for a TB-Free Kenya.' With monetary support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and USAID, the drama festival is an innovative pilot intervention carried out in counties with a high TB burden as part
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