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AMREF Health Africa

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• January 7, 2014

AMREF Health Africa is one of Africa’s leading health, development and research organisations. AMREF implements projects to learn, and shares this evidence-based knowledge with others to advocate for changes in health policy and practice. AMREF seeks to empower communities to take control of their health and to establish a vibrant and participatory health care system made up of communities, health workers and governments.

Priority intervention areas include control of HIV, TB, and STIs. Other areas of work include clinical outreach services, development of health learning materials, training and consultancies.

Geographical Coverage:
AMREF’S headquarters is in Nairobi, Kenya. AMREF has country programmes in Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Southern Sudan and Ethiopia and has operations in more than twenty other countries in Africa.

Physical and Postal Address:
AMREF International Training Centre,
Langata Road, opposite Wilson Airport, Nairobi, Kenya,
P.O. Box 27691-00506, Nairobi, Kenya.
Phone: 
Fax: +254- 20-609518 Nairobi Kenya
Email: info.hq[at]amref.org
Website: 

History of AMREF

In 1956, three doctors – Michael Wood, Archibald McIndoe and Tom Rees – drew up a groundbreaking plan to provide medical assistance to remote regions of East Africa, where they had all worked for many years as reconstructive surgeons.

Spurred by what they had seen of the combined effects of poverty, tropical disease and a lack of adequate health services in East Africa, their collective vision was born in the foothills Mt Kilimanjaro.

At that time, there was one doctor to every 30,000 people in East Africa – in Britain it was 1:1,000. Medical facilities were sparse, with rough terrain and often impassable roads making access to medical care difficult for people in rural and remote areas. As this was where the majority of the population lived, Archie, Tom and Michael saw an air-based service as the only way to get health care to remote communities.
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