Noah Wekesa

Amref Health Africa Named among Kenya’s top NGO Sector Players (2018/19)

Organised by Kenya’s Nongovernmental Organisation (NGO) Coordination Board, the NGO Week 2020 was held from 27th to 31st January 2020…

6 years ago

A Big World Win in the Fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases

By Solomon Mwaniki (WASH Project Officer) and Peter Waka (Programme Director, WASH, and NTDs), Amref Health Africa Neglected tropical diseases…

6 years ago

Kenya First Lady Donates Life-Saving Auto Transfusion Surgical Device

The First Lady’s Beyond Zero Kenya initiative has donated an autotransfusion surgical device - HEMAFUSE - to Mama Lucy Kibaki…

6 years ago

Salma’s Story: Embracing Child Spacing in Kwale County

Salma Kadama, a 22-year-old mother of three is a resident of Miatsani Village, Kwale County. Salma had all her three children…

6 years ago

Public-Private Mix (PPM) Interventions to Find the Missing People with TB in Kenya

The National TB Prevalence Survey (2016) showed that close to 50% of Kenya’s Tuberculosis (TB) cases go undetected and untreated.…

6 years ago

Amref Partners with Ministry of Health to Train National Youth Service Recruits in Community Health

For the first time in the history of Kenya’s National Youth Service (NYS), a group of 2,000 servicemen and women…

7 years ago

Kenyan Health Organisations Launch Social Accountability Platform for Universal Health Coverage

Social accountability for health is still a relatively new practice in Kenya and indeed across the African continent. Kenya continues…

7 years ago

Kajiado County Enacts Policy to End Female Genital Mutilation

It is estimated that 100,000 girls undergo female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Kenya every year.   The Kenya Demographic and Health Survey…

7 years ago

Unpacking the journey to self reliance (J2SR)

“As we listen to some of the most thoughtful voices around the world, over and over again we hear the…

7 years ago

A Toilet Story

Deep in an idyllic village off the Malindi-Mombasa highway, in a place cool with the shade and sway of trees,…

7 years ago