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Amref calls for overall increased investment in malaria control activities across Kenya
On this year’s World Malaria Day under the theme “Ready to beat Malaria”, Amref Health Africa in Kenya joins partners in reaffirming our commitment to working with the global malaria community towards the common goal of a world free of malaria. Malaria remains one of the major public health problems worldwide and a major cause of illness and death. Sadly, the greatest burden of the disease is borne by the poorest and the most vulnerable members of society. In Kenya, malaria accounts
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Janet Akoth’s Journey with Obstetric Fistula
Janet Akoth Odongo, 32, lives in Sinanga Village, Kenya. She was left with obstetric fistula, a hole in the birth canal that causes incontinence, during her first pregnancy when she was 18. At the time, when the doctors realised she was having complications with delivering the baby, they referred her to a hospital in Kisumu County so she could undergo a caesarian section. Sadly, the baby did not survive. And, before long, Janet began experiencing incontinence. Janet stayed in the hospital after the delivery so doctors could assess the injury she sustained during delivery. Throughout this ti
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350 Girls Safely Initiated into Womanhood in Samburu County
Amref Health Africa and USAID support Alternative Rite of Passage programme to protect girls from circumcision. 20th April 2018... A total of 350 girls have today been initiated into womanhood through an Alternative Rite of Passage ceremony held in Samburu County, through Afya Timiza, a programme supported by USAID in partnership with Amref Health Africa. The event was the culmination of week-long activities and training that involved sensitisation on Read More
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Amref Health Africa Staff Named to TIME 100
Kenyan Nice Nailantei Leng’ete on TIME’s annual list of the world’s most influential people New York, USA: Amref Health Africa’s global CEO, Dr. Githinji Gitahi, today congratulated staff member Nice Nailantei Leng’ete on being named to TIME 100, TIME’s annual list of the world’s most influential people. Ms. Leng’ete received the honor for her work with Maasai communities in Kenya to end the practic
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With Ksh372.5 Million Grant, USAID and Amref Partner with Clan Leaders to End Child Marriage and FGM in Marsabit and Samburu
Nairobi, April 12, 2018 - Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Amref Health Africa, together with the Governors of Marsabit and Samburu Counties, and the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs, launched a new approach to ending child marriage and eradicating Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) through partnership with clan elders and youth leaders. The three-year “Koota Injena” (“Come let us talk”) project, made possible by a grant of Ksh372.5 million from the U.S. Governm
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Kicking AIDS Out
Peter Adoyo serves as a community health worker in the Soweto East community unit. He got his training as a Community Heath Volunteer in 2009 and has since been visiting, advising and helping people in different households about matters health. He currently has 117 households that he visits twice per week and works closely with the community members in holding dialogues on health. In cases where he finds a household with health problems, he does his research before referring the family to Amref Kibera health centre. He works well in mobilizing women on family planning and links up with the c
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A Community Health Worker (CHW) returns to Primary School at 22
She looks youthful in her neatly dressed school outfit, but she is 22 and already a mother of three. Marisa Lenaitorono, a Community Health Worker (CHW) is in class three at Nkopeliani Primary School in Samburu County. The young woman was 14 when she dropped out of school. “I was forced to undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and then married off to a man the age of my father,” she narrates. “Not because I was in love with the man, but because of my tradition dictated so. I had no voice to say no,” she continues. Faced with hard reality of motherhood at a tender age,
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Ruth Lepata benefits from Water supply and Food sovereignty project
Ruth Lepeta, a Community Health Worker (CHW) in Lpetepet village is a happy woman, thanks to training by Amref Health Africa. The mother of four young children says the training has been a big blessing as it has helped improve quality of her family’s life. Armed with the training, Lepeta has resorted into giving back to the community by advocating for construction of pit latrines to reduce incidences of contagious disease and bring dignity to members of the community. “We were taught how to dig pit latrines and use them. Before then, we used to defecate in the bushes, this brought
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