Can we have health without health workers?
By Dr George Kimathi, Director, Institute of Capacity Development (ICD), Amref Health Africa Hellen Hadia with new mother Mariline Gisma and her baby daughter named Hadia, after Hellen (c) Amref Health Africa/Steve Kagia If you have been following Amref Health Africa for a while, you might have come across Hellen Hadia, a registered midwife who graduated in 2023 from the Amref-supported Maridi Health Sciences Institute in South Sudan. […]
Meet the immunisation champions
Vaccines are one of humanity’s greatest achievements—in the last 50 years, vaccines have saved 154 million lives. That’s six people’s lives saved every minute, for the past 50 years. Yet, millions of children are still missing out on the routine vaccinations that can keep them safe through infancy and childhood. And millions more people die […]