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5 ways in which the UK media can improve its coverage of COVID-19 in Africa
Written by Rachel Erskine and Janice Njoroge, Communications Managers with Amref Health Africa
Africa Bracing for a Head-On Collision with Coronavirus, The coronavirus could devastate poor countries, African Countries Fear They Are Defenceless Against Inevitable Spread of Coronavirus. These are just some of the headlines that have appeared since the first cases of coronavirus were confirmed on the African continent. As we write, the number of confirmed cases in Africa has just passed 1 million. Rates of testing vary dramatically from one country to the next, suggesting w Read More
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A Guiding Light: The Men Supporting Adolescent Mothers
Article by USAID/Afya Timiza Project Unplanned and early pregnancies often deter girls and young women from achieving their goals. At a younger age, Riziki dreamt of becoming a nurse so she could help mothers and children in her community. At 14, just as she was beginning to prepare herself for the national primary school certificate examinations, Riziki discovered she was pregnant. The herbs the moran gave her every time they had sex had not worked. Too afraid to face her family, Riziki ran away from home and dropped out of school. A lo
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David Mbalo’s Story: A Livelihood in Selling and Building Toilets
My name is David Mbalo. I serve as a community health volunteer (CHV) in Buyayi Village, Busia County. I am one of the CHVs trained by Amref Health Africa’s FINISH INK Project on sanitation marketing. Although in the village I am best known as “Daktari wa Kijiji” (village-based health worker), I am a trained mason by profession. I took up the CHV role so as to serve my community. Since then, my passion for seeing a healthy community has been my source of motivation. I would like to see a disease-free Buyayi Village because a healthy village is an empowered village.” --- Dav
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School Health Club Patron Teaches Girls to Say No to FGM/C and CEFM
“Know your worth”: A primary school teacher is teaching nomadic girls how to stand up for themselves and say no to FGM/C and CEFM.
Dolphine Akinyi is a 30 years old Kenyan teacher at Hawesha Girl Primary School, located in Sololo, Marsabit County. When she took her post three years ago in the Northern arid part of Kenya, she believed she would face similar challenges as her colleagues living in other rural areas: high level of poverty, near-absence of governmental infrastructures, lack of teaching resources and materials, high pupil-teacher ratio Read More -
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TB Ambassador Counsels Using Her Experience with Drug Resistant TB – Catherine’s Story
A community health volunteer’s visit to her home saved her life. She was very ill and could not even walk. She had lost her appetite and was growing thinner and thinner by the day. This is the story of Catherine from West Pokot County, who developed multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) as a result of interrupting treatment. A widow, Catherine resided with her five children, farming maize and pulses to feed her family. Life was normal for her until late 2013 when she fell sick. “At first I thought it was a malaria attack,” she says, adding that she had cold chills, lo
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One Woman’s Journey – Nurto’s Story
Before finding treatment through the Amref Health Africa Safe Motherhood Project, Nurto suffered with obstetric fistula for seven years after the birth of her first born in 2012. When she was only 21 years old, Nurto experienced a wrenching, prolonged labour at a local hospital in rural Garissa. After delivering her child, she found herself at the lowest point of her life. She was leaking urine and faeces uncontrollably, alongside other unpleasant complications that included back pain. Her condition affected her livelihood. Due to the pain she was experiencing, doing any type of labou
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Here’s to a Second Chance – Zahara’s Story
Zahara, a 35-year-old resident of Bulla Takwa, Garissa County is a mother of four. In 2018, Zahara was pregnant with her fifth child. Her happiness was short-lived as she suffered a miscarriage, and she was diagnosed with obstetric fistula. “After I lost my baby, my whole world shattered and I did not want to live anymore. I felt sharp pains and was leaking urine. I thought it was normal after the miscarriage. Later, the doctors revealed to me that I had fistula, which I did not know and had never heard of.” Unable to do any type of house chores, her husband supported and stood by he
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From the Streets to the International Music Scene: Papillon’s Story
Hailing from a humble background in a small village in Embu County, Martin Murimi who goes by the stage name ‘Papillon’ endured a hard early life living on the streets. With the support of Amref Health Africa’s Child in Need Project, he found salvation in music and art. His journey started 27 years ago, growing up in a family of six. “I was brought up by my mother and life was good until I decided to join my father in Nairobi,” he said. In the city, things took a turn for the worse. He lived with his father and stepmother and after sometime, he moved out with nowhere to seek
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Samburu Muslim Women Embrace Cervical Cancer Screening
Article by USAID/Afya Timiza Project “Despite the lack of knowledge, fears and misperceptions relating to medical examination, discomfort with male health workers and limited spousal approval; community awareness on reproductive, maternal, new-born, child and adolescent health through sensitisations done by Sheikhs and Imams is saving the lives of Muslim women in Samburu County.” Sheikh Ahmed Medo, Chairman of the Samburu Supreme Muslim Council of Kenya. Cancer is the third leading cause of death in Kenya after infectious and cardiovascular diseases. In 20
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