While in Uganda, Ms Suvari will visit AMREF’s projects in Kitgum, Pader, Gulu, Luwero and Nakasongola districts, as well as Kawempe Division in the capital city, Kampala. The projects focus on the country’s most critical health issues, particularly those that affect women and children, such as sexual reproductive health, integrated HIV/TB/Malaria, home-based care, immunisation, and water and sanitation.
“We’re excited to introduce Mena to our work on the ground and proud to have her join our efforts to highlight the extraordinary work that AMREF is doing to ensure that families and communities across the country have access to health and health care,” said Joshua Kyallo, Country Director, AMREF in Uganda.
AMREF – founded over 50 years ago – is the largest health development organisation based in Africa. AMREF’s mission is to improve health and health care in Africa and ensure that every African can enjoy the right to good health by closing the gap between the formal health system and the communities who need health care services.
“It’s amazing how much difference AMREF has made in these communities. In one of the projects I look forward to visiting, more than 1,100 orphans and their guardians, the vast majority of whom women, are getting the support they need to grow,” said Dr Paul Antony, Chief Medical Officer for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a member of the visiting delegation. “It’s important that governments, health care workers and the private sector continue to support projects that ensure a better future for Africa.”
To find out more about AMREF visit www.amref.org
The African Medical & Research Foundation was founded in 1957 as the Flying Doctors of East Africa. Today, AMREF is the largest health development organisation based in Africa; 97% of its staff are African. AMREF has been working with African communities for 50 years to improve health and health care for the most disadvantaged people. AMREF aims to ensure that every African can enjoy the right to good health by helping to create vibrant networks of informed communities that work with empowered health care providers in strong health systems. AMREF is the only NGO to receive both the Bill and Melinda Gates Award for Global Health (2005) and the Conrad N Hilton Humanitarian Prize (1999).
AMREF has worked in Uganda since the mid-1980s. Its work includes providing clean water, child immunisation programmes and home-based care in displaced people’s camps in northern Uganda; integrating HIV, TB and malaria services in Luwero, Kiboga and Soroti districts; and empowering young people to demand and access better health care services in Kabale District.
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