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Climate-resilient health systems are a moral imperative

Climate-resilient health systems are a moral imperative

The climate emergency worsens global health conditions and weakens healthcare infrastructure. Health systems must be fortified to withs...

Health and Climate change Water and disease prevention Health innovations
An Alternative Rite of Passage to FGM/C

An Alternative Rite of Passage to FGM/C

On 3 December, 460 girls from Olgulului and surrounding villages took part in an Alternative Rites of Passage graduation ceremony.

Women and girls Kenya End FGM/C
Africa has 'Distributed Carbon Emission Guilt'

Africa has 'Distributed Carbon Emission Guilt'

At COP29, Dr Githinji Gitahi calls for a strategy shift from ‘distributed carbon emission guilt’ to people-centred climate action.

Events Health and Climate change
From Talk to Action: Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa

From Talk to Action: Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa

We need joint efforts to combat the rise of AMR, particularly in Africa, which is projected to bear 40% of global AMR-related deaths by...

Water and disease prevention Emergency response Events
Amref UK Statement on Royal Patronage

Amref UK Statement on Royal Patronage

Amref Health Africa UK is grateful for His Majesty the King’s ongoing support as Patron, an association which started in 1979 after Kin...

Announcement
Help communities stand against FGM/C

Help communities stand against FGM/C

Every 12 minutes, a girl dies from FGM/C. Girls as young as 8 years old are being cut, inflicting excruciating pain and a lifetime of h...

Women and girls Kenya End FGM/C
How mobile clinics are helping to end TB

How mobile clinics are helping to end TB

Q&A with Amref’s Regional TB Coordinator in Zanzibar, Dr Rahma Omar

Tanzania Health innovations Water and disease prevention
Three ways we're helping to end TB by 2030

Three ways we're helping to end TB by 2030

Amref works with communities across several African countries, including in Zanzibar, to develop innovative, people-centred methods to...

Health innovations Tanzania Water and disease prevention
How Kenya floods could fuel neglected tropical diseases

How Kenya floods could fuel neglected tropical diseases

Between March and May, unprecedented rainfall hit Kenya, causing catastrophic flooding. It was one of the worst natural disasters to hi...

Emergency response Kenya

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