Distance Learning Courses

Why Distance Learning?

• Study as you work at your own time, pace and place
• High quality and well prepared course materials
• Experienced and highly qualified tutors and tutorial support

Intake: All year round

Mode of Delivery

Delivery Option I: Printed course material delivered to you via Post office – KES 1, 900 or  20 USD per module for health workers in Kenya (This option is only within Kenya)

Delivery Option II: A link sent to you via email from where you can download and print the course material. KES 1, 250 or 13 USD per module. Tuition for non-residents: Non-residents tuition for any course is USD 450

Is This Course For You?

Have you completed basic training as a health worker?

Are you unable to take time off work to study? Are you self-driven, innovative and interested in growing your career? If your answer is yes to these questions, there couldn’t be a more perfect growth path for your career than AMIU’s Distance Learning courses.

How does it work?

Upon enrolment, the learner receives the first three lessons of the course online.  Each lesson is made up of a study unit and assignment.  The learner is required to go through the study unit and answer all the questions in the assignment. Assignments are then mailed back to Amref International University where experienced tutors correct and return them with comments.

For more information

Get in touch

Department of Continuing Professional Development: Distance Learning:

Short Courses
Tel: +254(0)2699-3122/3218
Email: [email protected]

Admission Enquiries:
Tel & WhatsApp: +254112352343
Email: [email protected]

General Enquiries
Tel: +254 741 743 871
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1. Child Health

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 25,000

The course aims to provide health workers with the competencies they need to provide promotive, preventive and curative health services to children.

Course Modules

1. Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
2. Clinical Problem Solving
3. Common Problems of the New –Born
4. Growth and Development
5. Health Education, Promotion & Counselling
6. Nutrition
7. Anaemia
8. Immunization
9. Malaria
10. Diarrhoea
11. Acute Respiratory Infections
12. Eye, Nose and Throat (ENT)
13. HIV/AIDS
14. Helminthiasis
15. Oral, Eye and Skin Conditions
16. Mental Health
17. Common Injuries and Accidents
18. Disability and Rehabilitation Part I
19. Disability and Rehabilitation Part II
20. Other Conditions: Urinary tract infection, Meningitis, Diabetes, Typhoid e.tc

 2. Community Health

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 20,500

The course is designed to enable learners to acquire knowledge and skills pertaining to community health and apply it to address community health issues and needs. It is aimed at developing competencies in health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation of individuals, families and the community, using the available resources.

Course Modules

1. Introduction to community health
2. Demography and Epidemiology
3. Primary Health Care
4. Organization & administration of health services
5. Sociology and Anthropology
6. Behaviour change and communication
7. Environmental health
8. Communicable diseases
9. Community diagnosis and assessment
10. Special Health Issues
11. Home Based Care
12. Management,
13. Nutrition
14. Immunization
15. 15 Maternal Child and Family Planning Mental Health

3. Communicable Diseases

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 20,500

This course deals with the diagnosis, management, prevention and control of common communicable on tropical diseases.

Course Modules

1. Epidemiology
2. Infection prevention and control
3. Travel Medicine
4. Immunization
5. Contact Diseases
6. STDs
7. HIV/AIDS
8. Vector Borne Diseases
9. Malaria
10. Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases
11. Diseases of Faeco-oral Contamination
12. Helminthiasis
13. Acute Respiratory Infections
14. Menigitis
15. Tuberculosis and Leprosy
16. Diseases of Contact with Animals

4. Integrated HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Management

Course Duration: 1 month | Tuition: KES 15,500

The objective of this course is to develop your knowledge, skills and attitudes with respect to provision of comprehensive care to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their families.

Course Modules

1. Fundamentals of HIV and AIDS
2. Prevention of HIV infection and Post Exposure
3. HIV Counselling and Testing
4. Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
5. HIV Treatment and Monitoring
6. Management of patients with HIV related diseases
7. Nutrition in the Context of HIV and AIDS
8. Management of HIV in Special Populations
9. Community & Home Based Care and Other Support
10. Behaviour Change Communication (BCC)
11. Monitoring and Evaluation
12. HIV Commodity Security

5. Non Communicable Diseases (Revised)

Course Duration: 2-3 months| Tuition: KES 20,500

The course has 17-modules covering non-communicable diseases in adults.

Course Modules

1. Diseases of the Cardiovascular System Part I
2. Diseases of the Cardiovascular System Part II
3. Diseases of the Respiratory System Part I
4. Diseases of the Respiratory System Part II
5. Diseases of the Urinary System
6. Diseases of the Alimentary System Part I
7. Diseases of the Alimentary System Part II
8. Diseases of the Joints & Connective tissues
9. Diseases of the Nervous System Part I
10. Diseases of the Nervous System Part II
11. Diseases of the Blood & Reticuloendothelial System
12. Diseases of the Endocrine Glands
13. Diseases of Nutrition
14. Poisoning;
15. Common Skin Diseases in the Tropics
16. Miscellaneous diseases
17. Cancer and its Management

 6. Malaria

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 15,500

This is a 12 module course which addresses the management, prevention and control of malaria.

Course modules

1. Malaria
2. Clinical Assessment of Malaria
3. Severe and complicated Malaria
4. Treatment of Malaria
5. Treatment defaults in Malaria
6. Referral in Severe and Complicated Malaria
7. Malaria in Pregnancy
8. Prevention and Control of Malaria
9. Community Based Management of fever and Malaria in children
10. HIV/AIDS and Malaria
11. Counselling and Health Education on Malaria
12. Malaria Surveillance

7. Nutrition

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 14,250

This course aims to provide health workers with knowledge and skills on how to promote good nutrition especially breastfeeding in the community; manage and prevent malnutrition in the community.

Course Modules

1. Food Nutrients
2. Maternal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation
3. The relationship between nutrition, infection and disease
4. Protein-Energy-Malnutrition
5. Breastfeeding Part I
6. Breastfeeding Part II
7. Complimentary feeding
8. Growth Monitoring Promotion
9. Nutrition counselling
10. Nutrition
11. HIV

8. Medicine Management (New)

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 10,500

The main objectives of the course are to prepare health managers who have competencies in medicines management in health facilities at different levels.

Course Modules

1. Policies and Medicine Control
2. Selection of Medicines
3. Procurement and Medicine Quality Assurance
4. Distribution of Medicines
5. Rational Use of Medicine
6. Organization and Management of Drug Supply
7. Drugs and Substance Abuse

9. Drug and Substance Abuse (New)

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 10,500

This course is designed for health workers who are involved in curative and rehabilitative services at all levels of health care. These include, but not limited to, medical officers, clinical officers, pharmacists and pharmaceutical technologists, occupational therapists and nurses.  In addition, health managers concerned with policy formulation and regulation are encouraged to participate.

Course Modules

1. Exposure Situation in Drug and Substance Abuse
2. Drug and Substance Abuse in Special Populations
3. Categories of Drugs and Substances of Abuse
4. Interventions for Mitigation /Eradication of the Use of Drugs
5. Policy Guidelines and Regulations Relating to Drug and Substance Abuse

10. Maternal & Neonatal Health (New)

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 10,500

Course Modules

1. The Normal neonate
2. Neonatal Resuscitation
3. Birth Injuries
4. Management of High Risk Neonate
5. Congenital Abnormalities

11. Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Course Duration: 2-3 months | Tuition: KES 13,000

This is a 10 module course which looks at the female Reproductive system and specifically discusses issues related to pregnancy and delivery and associated medical problems.

Course Modules

1. Anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive system
2. Introduction to Obstetrics
3. Bleeding in Pregnancy
4. Medical conditions in pregnancy
5. Normal Labour and puerperium
6. Abnormal pregnancy and presentation
7. Abnormal Labour
8. Operative Obstetrics and abnormal puerperium
9. Diseases of the female Genital track
10. Family Planning Methods

US$ 450, per course for health workers outside Kenya

Requirement for enrolment: One must be a Health Worker or Training as a Health worker

12. Monitoring and Evaluation

Course Duration:  3-6 months

Tuition: KES 70,000 or USD 700

This course equips participants with competencies in monitoring and evaluation of development interventions at project, programme and organisational level.

Course Modules

Module I: Concepts and Principles of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

Module 2: Monitoring Processes and Method

Module 3: Evaluation Processes

Module 4: Data Analysis and Report Writing

Module 5: Monitoring and Evaluation system

Module: Project Assignment