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Amref and AstraZeneca launch mobile clinics to support last mile COVID-19 vaccination efforts in Kenya
The mobile clinics will support communities with limited or no access to vaccines and other health services.
Nairobi, Kenya, 27 June 2022: Amref Health Africa and AstraZeneca, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Kenya, are launching a fleet of Mobile Vaccination Clinics (MVCs) in an effort to protect last-mile communities from the pandemic. The ten movable clinics will bring COVID-19
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The war against malaria in Kenya has received a major boost following the launch of cross-border malaria control and prevention interventions at the Kenya-Uganda border in Busia County.
The launch which took place at Akiriamas primary school in Teso South Sub County, under the banner of the Great Lakes Malaria Initiative (GLMI) seeks to eliminate malaria in the Great Lakes region in a coordinated man
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AMREF Flying Doctors partners with NCBA Group
The partnership gives customers of the Kenya-based financial services group access to a 10-per-cent discount on emergency medical transport services across East Africa
African financial services conglomerate NCBA Group has signed a partnership deal with AMREF Flying Doctors, which will enable NCBA to offer medical evacuation service discounts to its customers.
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Research Papers
Long Term Socio-economic Effects of COVID-19 in Rural KENYA
When the novel coronavirus arrived in sub-Saharan Africa, many feared the continent would not be able to cope with the impact of such a fast-evolving pandemic. Memories of how the Ebola virus overwhelmed weak health systems in West Africa in 2014 loomed largely, and many braced themselves for the socio-economic fallout. But with COVID-19, this never fully materialized. In this research brief, we show that despite falls in income, in the long-term rural communities in western Kenya found a way to cope economically with COVID-19 and its containment measures.