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Moran Protecting His Community from Harmful Cultural Practices
Whether they find their spouse through arranged marriage like their parents, or on their own, morans (warriors) in the Samburu community are intransigent about one criterion for their future bride: she needs to be “cut”. The cut, also known as Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C), is a highly prevalent cultural practice within the Samburu, a nomadic pastoralist group living in Northern Kenya, with prevalence rate more than four times higher than the national average (90%1 compared to 21%). These clans consider FGM/C a crucial rite of passage to womanhood and have
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Giving Premature Babies in Samburu County a Better Chance to Survive and Thrive
“………..when you come to the hospital and the doctors tell you that you have to give birth five weeks before the date they had indicated, you have to think twice.”
Elizabeth Lengur, 25, was attending her routine antenatal clinic for the second time, three months past her scheduled visit. The nurse informed her that they needed to deliver the baby immediately or both mother and child would lose their lives. Elizabeth later found out that the persistent headaches she had been suffering had been a sign of danger. She
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Partnership that is Bringing Joy to Women by Restoring Their Dignity
Amref Health Africa in partnership with Kenyatta National Hospital, UNFPA, Safaricom Foundation and Flying Doctors' Society of Africa held a two week Fistula Camp at Kenyatta National Hospital, from 27 June to 12 July, 2019. At the camp, fistula patients received free surgery, physiotherapy and medical advice. Through this partnership, tremendous progress has been made towards the treatment of fistula. Fistula is a debilitating condition caused by obstructed or prolonged labour often due to lack of skilled health care. It brings about suffering and women with fistula have to live with low este
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Winners of Inaugural Quality Healthcare Kenyan Awards Named At Gala Dinner in Nairobi
The winners of the first ever Quality Healthcare Kenyan Awards (QHKA) were honoured at a gala dinner held last night at Radisson Blu Hotel. The first of its kind in Kenya, the award recipients were recognised for their outstanding performance, contributions and achievement in improving the quality of healthcare in Kenya. QHKA aims at recognising and lauding organisations and individuals for their outstanding contributions to the Kenyan health sector and will act as an impetus towards improving the standards of health service delivery. A brainchild of Zawadi Brand Solutions Limited (
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I am: Untitled
By Arthur Mwai A protected well without a donor inscription is like a new-born baby without an official name – much loved and highly-valued. Of course the locals have always had a name for the conventional Oluchina well that is positioned at a major crossroad of footpaths that interconnect the many homesteads that draw water from this well. As we waited for the Water Management Committee members to arrive for the assignment, I wondered…what if this conventional well could talk? If The Oluchina Well Could Talk I have always existed underground i
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Amref Health Africa in Kenya Boards visits Turkana County
Amref Health Africa in Kenya’s Board of Directors led by Board Chair Ms Eunice Mathu paid a courtesy call to the Turkana County Executive Committee Member of Health and Sanitation Hon. Jane Ajele on Thursday, 27 June 2019. During the visit, the County Government signed two agreements with Amref Health Africa in Kenya that will serve to strengthen further collaboration and partnership through the USAID- funded Afya Timiza activity. The first was the signing of a Letter of Agreement for Afya Timiza supported Contract Health Workers presided over by the Deputy County Secretary Robert Loyelei
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Amref and Turkana County Sign Agreement to Strengthen Health Workforce
Amref Health Africa in Kenya through the USAID-funded Afya Timiza activity has signed a two-year collaboration agreement with the County Government of Turkana geared towards addressing the county’s Human Resources for Health gaps through a Donor Supported Contract Health Workers Program.
The signing ceremony was presided over by Deputy County Secretary Robert Loyelei and witnessed by the Amref Health Africa in Kenya Board of Directors led by its Chair Ms Eunice Mathu during a field visit to the County earlier today.
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My Amazing Experience at Women Deliver 2019
By Diram Duba I travelled to Vancouver, Canada for the first time to attend the Women Deliver Conference, the world’s largest conference on gender equality that brought together government officials, human rights activists, academics, media and advocacy organisations from around the world between June 2 and June 6, 2019. There were at least 8,000 participants at this conference. End FGM/C Pre-Conference [caption id="attachment_654" align="alignright" width="405"]
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Narok, Amref make bricks for latrines
Narok county has partnered with Amref to make bricks for latrines to improve sanitation among residents. County public health director Daniel Sironka said the initiative will enable residents build latrines with materials every household can afford. “We are launching a machine which will help in making bricks from commonly available sand and ensure that every family gets to build a modern toilet at a very small cost,” Sironka said. Speaking at Mulot in Narok West subcounty, Sironka said only 86 out of 2,000 villages in the county had been declared open defecation free, meaning all
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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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