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Community Health Workers help save lives in Wamba Samburu County
Antonera Lepesha is a Community Health Volunteer (CHV) from Tritop in Samburu County. After being trained by Amref Health Africa through the Uzazi Salama project, Antonera has taken lead in executing health strategies in her community. Her roles include taking care of patients in her village, giving referrals, and also facilitating patients’ transportation to health facilities. “I am happy I can now help my community. The training done by Amref Health Africa has empowered me with the skill and knowledge to serve my people better,” she explains. Antonera appreciates the mLearning pl
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Amref M&E Specialist Receives Fellowship at Prestigious University of California, Berkeley
Mr Samuel Muhula, Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Manager at Amref Health Africa in Kenya and a PhD candidate at Jomo Kenyatta Univeristy of Agriculture and Technology received a semester-long (January to May, 2018) East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) fellowship to study impact evaluation and global economic development at the University of California, Berkeley. The EASST Collaborative, which is administered by the Cente
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Dorcus Indalo Personal Story
In the last 13 years that Dorcus Indalo has been working with Amref Health Africa in Kenya, she has gone from supporting HIV and AIDS project in one of Africa’s largest urban slums, to working with Maasai and Kamba communities to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in Kajiado and Kitui counties. Today, she rubs shoulders with legislators and policy makers at the County and National level to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights. With so many years of experience, and such a variety of work, it’s no wonder that Dorcus has three mome
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The agony of getting clean water: Muli Mboya’s story
One part of the country has plenty of water. The other has not had it for several months. The differences go deeper than that. Muli Mboya, 13, a resident of Mwingi understands this paradox pretty well. When the twilight fades to blackness, it lights a fire to Muli’s hearts. It burns away her joy and happiness she got from school. The eerie darkness of every night means walking for hours and hours with her little brother to look for water. It is 2am and she is already wielding a whip to urge her two donkeys forward, Muli has woken up earlier than everyone else in the village and is rushing
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Amref hosts the first Social Accountability Conference in Nairobi
Amref Health Africa hosted the first social accountability conference at the Amref International University from 14 and 15 March 2018 to stimulate dialogue on enhanced social accountability among health sector stakeholders in Kenya. The conference which was organized by Health Rights Advocacy Forum (HERAF), a national non- governmental organisation that promotes human rights based approach in health care delivery brought together over 100 participants drawn from the National and County government offic
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E-Plus in partnership with AMREF Flying Doctors Rescues a Five Month Baby Specialized Treatment
Tuesday, 20 March 2018, Nairobi: Emergency Plus Medical Services (E-Plus) in partnership with AMREF Flying Doctors has carried out an air evacuation for a five-month old baby with a congenital extra-cranial tumour from Mandera county to Nairobi for a specialized medical treatment. The baby was received by E-Plus Medical Director, Dr. Muthoni Ntonjira at Wilson Airport and transfered to Kenyatta National Hospital for a neurosurgical care by Dr. Samuel Njiru, a neurosurgeon and Dr. Susan Nabulindo, a paediatric anaesthesiologist. Ms Julie Gichuru of Arimus Media reached ou
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Amref Joins Health Stakeholders in Aligning NCDs to Universal Health Coverage agenda
The Cabinet Secretary for Health in Kenya, Mrs Sicily Kariuki, has appealed to development partners to support the Government in mapping out how to achieve Universal Health Coverage in the context of a growing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
“The government of Kenya has already put in place a number of strategies and programmes to fast-track the achievement of UHC. This includes scaling up health insurance enrolment through, among others, the use of community-based approaches; investing in infrastructure and leveraging technological innovations,” she said. Read More
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Amref reveals plan to improve health access for 25 million Kenyans over the next five years
NGO seeks Ksh 26 billion for health programmes to support national and county health agenda Nairobi, March 15, 2018 … Amref Health Africa in Kenya has today unveiled a plan to support the improvement of primary health care for 25 million people in the country over the next five years. The ambitious plan, which will cost Ksh 26 billion (USD 262 million), focusses on improving access to basic health care services by underserved communities, women, children and the youth. Speaking at the launch of Amref Health Africa in Kenya’s Strategic Pla
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