Amref AVTS eLearning Courses March and May 2017 Intakes
Amref Health Africa through its Virtual Training School is currently offering various courses for health workers and invites applicants to apply for the March and May 2017 intakes. The courses are offered via distance-eLearning mode and employ a flexible approach that allows you to study at your own time and pace as you work and attend to your usual daily activities . The nurses who join the upgrading courses get an opportunity to access funding from Johnson and Johnson in partnership with Amref Health Africa. Click here to download full details and apply before 30 January 2017. Read more about the Amref Virtual Training School
Say Yes! To Integration Of CHWs Into The National Health Workforce
Community Health Workers, commonly referred to as CHWs, are the bridge between communities and the health and social service systems. As a continent affected by an inadequate supply of doctors and nurses, Community Health Workers are necessary to act as the link for the affected communities. Sadly, in most communities in Africa, CHWs drop out of the programme for lack of remuneration, with attrition level as high as 77{f77d86b8b02df11f5793c51c551cce3d9824437fe7b06daea7021af4609deccf}. In this regard, Amref Health Africa seeks to have CHWs recognised as part of the national health workforce and adequately remunerated, both financially and morally. We cannot do this without the support of well-wishers with the same vision for CHWs as we do. Community Health Workers matter! Click here to register your endorsement and define your support. #CHWsMatter
Amref Health Africa Expands Facilities to Train Health Workers
Kenya’s Cabinet Mr James Macharia yesterday opened a newly constructed Annex at the Amref Health Africa Training Centre and Headquarters in Nairobi that will expand the organisation’s capacity to train health workers from across the continent. The new building, funded by USAID’s American Schools and Hospitals Abroad programme at US$400,000, has a capacity of 215 students, as well as information and communications technology to support eLearning and mLearning. Mr Macharia commended Amref Health Africa for its commitment to training health workers to meet the huge need for skilled health care across the continent, and to strengthen healthysystems. “Amref Health Africa recognises the fundamental importance of training in achieving sustainable development, and I appreciate the strategies it has put in place to address health personnel shortages.” He added: “I believe that this learning hub will nurture generations of health care professionals who will make critical contributions at all levels of health care.” He noted that in Kenya, Amref Health Africa was expanding to meet the needs of the developed governments and also repositioning itself as a centre of excellence for training health workers in country and the region. Amref Health Africa, said Mr Macharia, continued to play an important role in mobilising resources to improve health care, and had proved to be a trusted partner of the Government of Kenya for many years, with results evident in areas such as malaria, and Water and Sanitation. “The fact that international development agencies continue to entrust large amounts of funding to Amref Health Africa is a reflection of the integrity and trust that the organisation has built over the years,” he said. Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in Nairobi Mr Isiah Parnell said that the US Government was committed helping build the quality and quantity of health care workers in Kenya. “The funding USAID provided to expand this training centre complements the US Government’s broader investment of close to Ksh 45 billion in Kenya’s health system,” said Mr Parnell. The Chair of Amref Health Africa’s International Board of Directors, Mr Omari Issa, announced that that the organisation’s International Board of Directors had decided to set up a university to train health workers. The decision, he said, and construction of the new annex, were in line with Amref Health Africa’s plans to expand its training portfolio and increase access to health care training. “We are investing in training people because we recognise that people are the most important element of the health system.”