Being a Midwife: Becky Buong
Becky came to Maridi from Tonj in Warrap State, Bahr el Ghazal Region, South Sudan to follow a long-held dream. Here, she tells us how she felt as a final-year midwifery student at Maridi Health Sciences Institute (MHSI). Becky Buong stands in front of Maridi Hospital’s maternity ward (c) Amref Health Africa/Steve Kagia Although Tonj […]
Household health systems: CHWs for UHC
Household health systems: community health workers for Universal Health Coverage Maureen Wauda does not talk about systems or policies when she describes her work. She talks about people. “From where I stand, I don’t see a health system – I see a household I am responsible for,” she told the audience at the Sidebar session Resilient Community-Health […]
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 […]