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Amref Hosts First Ladies to Amref at 60 Dinner
Governors’ wives pledge to make health a priority in their counties
Amref Health Africa in Kenya last night hosted the First Ladies of the County Governments of Kenya to a gala dinner in celebration of the organisation’s 60th anniversary at the Enashipai Resort in Naivasha, where the governors’ spouses have been meeting this week. Dr Meshack Ndirangu, Country Director of Amref Health Africa in Kenya, challenged the First Ladies to use their positions to influence improvement of health care in their counties, in particular through promoting (Read More -
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Italian donors visit Integrated Nutrition project in Siaya County
A team of Italian donors has described a charity trip to Amref Health Africa’s Integrated Nutrition project in Siaya County in Kenya as ‘completely life-changing’. The donors, Sonia Badoni, Massimiliano Gaddini and Caterina Rochetti exuded confidence on how Amref staff displayed their commitment towards making the project succeed. The team, accompanied by two representatives from Amref Health Africa in Italy, Serena Gentile and Silvia Carbutti were on a mission to assess the impact of the project which is funded by the European Union through Amref Health Africa in Italy. Caterin
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670,000 for Hypertension Screening as New Partner Enters Nakuru
For KES. 200.00, patients in 15 health facilities in Nakuru County will walk away with a month’s worth of medicines for treatment and control of hypertension. The package, which would otherwise cost thousands of shillings, comes courtesy of Healthy Heart Africa (HHA), an innovative Programme of AstraZeneca plc; an Anglo-Swedish Bio-Pharmaceutical multinational company based in Cambri
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End FGM
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Globally, at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of Female Genital Mutilation(FGM). It is a violation of their human rights and has got to stop!
Female Genital Cutting (FGC/M) is a painful and horrific experience for the 3 (three) million girls who go through it each year in Africa. In Kenya, the prevalence rate is 21%. The practice kills many girls as a result of bleeding, infections, and later complications during birth. It strips off the girl’s dignity.
In ord
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Partnership to improve health and livelihood for 500,000 people
Today, The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) celebrated the launch of a partnership with Amref Health Africa that will sustainably improve the health and enable the economic empowerment of more than 500,000 people living in communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda through improved access to safe water and sanitation as well as economic empowerment through income generating opportunities.
The partnership will sustainably improve the health and enable the economic empowerment of more than 500,000 people living in communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Ugan Read More -
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Towards Universal Health Coverage: Taking specialist and basic services to underserved communities
Amref Health Africa organised a surgical and mobile outreach mission this week to Turkana County in Northern Kenya. The mission was funded by Amref’s office in the USA and organised in partnership with the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, and the County Government of Turkana.
Throughout the week, three visiting specialists – a general surgeon, an obstetrician gynaecologist and a sonographer – attended to scores of patients, mainly residents of the vast Kakuma Refugee camp and members of the local host community. The two were stationed at the IRC (International Rescue Commi Read More -
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Amref to offer comprehensive pre-service nursing and midwifery programme
The Amref Health Africa Virtual Training School has began a resident and comprehensive pre-service nursing and midwifery programme to bridge the gap of skilled human resource for health in Kenya and the region as a whole.
This national programme has been accredited by the Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK) targeting students who have just completed their O-levels. In the last 12 years the school has been solely upgrading in-service nurses to diploma and degree level. Although this translates to improved quality of service delivery it doesn’t impact on the number of care Read More -
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Amref joins Unilever in Launching “Heroes for Change” Programme
In partnership with Sightsavers, UNFPA and Amref Health Africa, programme aims to reach 10 million Kenyans by 2020
NAIROBI, KENYA – June 6, 2017 – Calling all heroes – Unilever today officially launched Heroes for Change, a social mobilisation volunteer programme anchored on the Read More
