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• Non-Communicable Diseases

  Using the Facility-Community Chronic Care Model (F3C) Amref Health Africa provides a full continuum of chronic health care for patients at household, community and facility level. Borrowed from Amref’s HIV programming, the model has been adapted to deliver non-communicable Disease (NCD) services. The model’s continuum of care comprises three levels: household and community, facility level, and linkages. At the household and community level, community health volunteers (CHVs) are trained to carry out education and awareness on risk facto

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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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  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"]Read More

• Global Fund Tuberculosis Grant

  Communities play and important role in creating demand, ensuring equitable access and promoting accountability. With funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Amref Health Africa in Kenya has adopted a community systems strengthening (CSS) approach that promotes development of informed, capable and coordinated communities and community-based organisations, groups and structures. Working wit

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• Global Fund Malaria Grant

  Malaria remains a public health problem in Kenya with about 70 percent of the population at risk of the life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes. Kenya ranks fifth in a list of countries that are estimated to account for 90 per cent of malaria cases in the African region with some regions being m

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• Damu-Sasa: Give Blood, Save Life, Live Longer

  

  Damu-Sasa is an innovative end-to-end blood services information management system, meant for the blood services value-chain. It is built to aid in blood donor relationship management, blood requisition and inventory and utilisation management, blood unit tracking, emergency control and reporting, including Haemovigilance and stakeholder collaboration.

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• Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Programme

  [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our Purpose We believe that health is a basic human right. Everything we do ensures lasting health change for all.   The Challenge Strengthening health systems is critical towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals. Health care systems in low and middle-income countries have evolved over the years but still, struggle to be resilient and manage emerging health concerns. Despite the relatively recent shift of health care systems towards a more people-centred approach, health programmes, poli

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• Communicable diseases

  [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our Purpose We believe that health is a basic human right. Everything we do ensures lasting health change for all. The Challenge Communicable diseases (HIV, TB and Malaria) continue to be a major global public health issue. They are among the leading causes of death in Kenya. HIV/AIDS has resulted in significant deaths due to AIDS complications, with Africa being the hardest hit. Globally, 37.9 million people are living with HIV, with 1.7 million newly infected people and 770,000 people dying from

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• Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

  [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our Purpose We believe that health is a basic human right. Everything we do ensures lasting health change for all. The Challenge Every child deserves to have a healthy start in life. Unfortunately, every year, millions of parents lose their children to preventable illnesses because they do not have access to life-saving childhood vaccines. Equally, every mother should have access to quality health care during pregnancy and childbirth. According to the World Health Organisation, more than 800 women die every day from

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• Pillar 2: Innovative Health Services and Solutions

  [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At Amref Health Africa, we believe that health is a basic human right. Everything we do ensures lasting heath change for all. Kenya has made considerable progress in strengthening its health care system, with notable improvements in health indicators. Despite these improvements, huge disparities exist across and within counties and special groups with differences in the availability of the essential health package, health facilities and health workers resulting in inequities in service use. This is due to demand and supply side barriers in health service d

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