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What the Budget Means for Universal Health Coverage
By Dr Meshack Ndirangu The health sector was one of the major highlights of the 2018/19 budget with its allocation of the budget increasing by 46 percent from KSh61.6 billion allocated in 2017/18 to KSh90 billion. For the health sector, imperatives for us to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) include the need to mobilise adequate resources, increase investments in Primary Health Care, and reform key institutions such as the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to align them to the UHC agenda.
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Another Win for Amref – Dr Elizabeth Wala Elected to KEPSA Health Sector Board
Amref Health Africa in Kenya’s Dr Elizabeth Wala has been elected Vice-Chair of the Kenya Healthcare Federation (KHF). Founded in 2004, KHF is the health sector board for the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA), and works with health care providers, hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers and insurers to promote strategic public-private partnerships and engaging the government and all relevant stakeholders towards achieving national access to quality health care. KHF’s membership includes medical associations, professional associatio
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Amref to play key role in Universal Health Coverage
By Hezron Ochiel Amref Health Africa has outlined proposals to help accelerate the attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The health institution has partnered with Kenya’s National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to fast-track the scale-up of UHC by using Community Health Workers (CHWs) as agents for NHIF registration at community level. Speaking during the UHC Financing Forum in Washington in April
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Mandatory Steps on the Journey to Universal Health Coverage
By GITHINJI GITAHI. Health is a driver of economic growth and gives everyone a chance at the race of life. It is not acceptable that some members of society should face death, disability, ill health or impoverishment for reasons that could be addressed at limited cost. Moreover, healthy children learn and healthy adults earn. This is the premise for universal health coverage (UHC). Health is a driver of economic growth and gives everyone a chance at the race of life without the burden of illness and premature death and the associated
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WASTE, Amref Health Africa and Aqua for All sign partnership to make safe sanitation a reality for all by 2030
New Delhi, May 25 2018 - During the Dutch trade mission to India, headed by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, a FINISH Mondial partnership agreement between the NGOs WASTE, Amref Health Africa and Aqua for All was signed. The partnership aims to scale safe sanitation for the poor through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), thereby contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 6. FINISH is a promising approach initiated by WASTE, with ongoing success in India and Kenya that started in 2009 and 2013 respectively. As a result, by 2017 3.1 Million people enjoyed
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Let’s leave no one behind in Campaign to End Fistula
By Dr Elizabeth Wala The International Day to End Obstetric fistula (IDEOF) is marked annually on May 23rd to raise awareness and intensify actions towards ending obstetric fistula. Here in Kenya, the event was hosted by Kilifi County Government which held a week long fistula camp for screening and surgical treatment of obstetric fistula. In Kenya, approximately 3,000 women and girls develop fistula every year, while the backlog of those living with untreated fistula is estimated
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Amref Kenya Audit Report – 2017
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Amref’s anti-FGM activist makes grand return to her Noomayianat village
Nice Nailantei who was recently named in TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world this year, was on Sunday (May 13) treated to a rapturous homecoming ceremony in Noomayianat village, Oloitokitok in Kajiado County. Flanked by Loitokitok Member of Parliament (MP) Katoo Ole Metito, the leaders promised to tackle Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) as well as allocate more resources to
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