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  Critical Success Factors for Deployment of Primary Health Care Networks and their Impact in Kenya

  Kenya’s shift to Primary Care Networks (PCNs) is more than a health reform; it is a structural transformation. In just four months, 93 Primary Care Networks (PCNs) have been established across 37 counties, bringing care closer to where people live and breaking down the silos between communities and health facilities. Each network, designed around a hub-and-spoke model, rolls out in approximately three weeks at an average cost of USD 34,000.

  The results are already compelling: maternal deaths drop to zero in some pilot areas, while hundreds of new h
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• Tenders

  Re-advertisement for Proposed Design, Fabrication and Installation of Galvanised Elevated Steel Water Tanks in Kakuma – Turkana County | TENDER NO: AMREF/23/04/2025/013-01

  Amref Health Africa invites sealed bids from eligible contractors for the proposed design, fabrication and installation of steel water tanks in Kakuma, Turkana County. Tender Notice >>>  TENDER DOCUMENT FOR GALVANISED STEEL WATER TANKS >>> Pre-tender Meeting Link >>> Details: DATE: Friday,

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• Tenders

  Re-advertisement of Supply and Delivery of Various Laboratory Equipment – TENDER NO./AMIU/19/03/2025/002-01

  Amref Health Africa invites sealed bids from eligible candidates for the supply, delivery and installation of various laboratory equipment as per the lots listed below; Tender Notice >>> Lot 1: SUPPLY OF LABORATORY-APPARATUS >>> Lot 2: SUPPLY OF LABORATORY-EQUIPMENT >>> Read More

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• Research Papers

  Willingness and Ability to Pay for Sanitation in Busia

  Globally, access to improved sanitation remains a major challenge where about 2.4 billion people still lack toilets. Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are the worst affected where about 800 million people still practice open defecation with remarkable negative health and economic effects. Diarrhoea due to poor sanitation kills more children than HIV and measles together. This study was designed to determine the willingness and ability to pay for safe sanitation by households in Busia County. A cross sectional survey was conducted on 784 households using contingent valua

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• News

  78 Girls Graduate into Womanhood without ‘the cut’

  Amref Health Africa in Kenya through the Yes I Do (YIDA) project held an Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP) training and graduation ceremony engaging both girls and boys from Indupa Location, Kajiado County. During the four-day training, a total of 78 girls graduated into womanhood at the Alternative Rite of Passage celebration. The week started with training sessions on a variety of topics including reproductive health, the dangers of female genital mutilation (FGM), early marriage, teenage pregnancy, life skills and children’s rights. Girls who had gone through the ARP before and acquire

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• Blog

  Social Enterprises Key to UHC Success In Kenya

  Kenya is making commendable progress in the push to attain universal health coverage (UHC) for all its citizens. UHC is about financial protection and equity in access to quality health services that address the most significant causes of disease and death, and ensures that the quality of these services is good enough to improve the health of the people receiving them. A pointer to the progress Kenya is making in UHC is increased NHIF enrolment. In 2018, NHIF membership rose 23 per cent on an annual basis to 7.7 million people, with most of the new members coming from the informal sector. T

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• Personal Stories

  Relieving Women from the Burden of HIV

  According to a UNAIDS Report, 19 million out of the 35 million people living with the HIV virus today do not know that they have the virus. Furthermore, women continue to carry the greatest burden of the virus with young women getting infected almost ten years earlier than their male counterparts. For Felister, a 23 year old mother of two children, these numbers are more than statistics, they are her reality. The year was 2012, and Felister had a lot to look forward to in life. She was recently married and had just delivered her first child with her husband when he fell ill. At the hospital

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