AMREF programmes continue to have a far reaching effect across the African continent through our training programmes, clinical outreach and laboratory programmes.
AMREF's Training Programmes take place in communities, health centres and hospitals in six African countries, as well as in AMREF’s International Training Centre in Nairobi and satellite training centres in Tanzania and Uganda. The Diploma in Community Health course has seen graduates from all over Africa, in turn spreading improved health practices and bettering the lives of communities across the continent.
AMREF's Clinical Outreach Programme aims to treat patients who would not otherwise have access to the care they need, to train local health teams in extremely rural areas to carry out this work themselves in the future. AMREF’s planes take specialist surgeons to areas where there are no communications, limited medical services and little or no surgical services. We travel to inaccessible areas that can only be reached by plane, where health clinics and hospitals try to support hundreds of people staying in outlaying villages where the only health facility may be a man selling paracetamol in a roadside kiosk.
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AMREF's Laboratory Programme works at both central and peripheral levels to find solutions to major constraints to quality health services delivery. The programme has been actively involved in the standardisation of laboratory techniques and equipment through policy development, and has developed refresher training activities and appropriate health learning materials for clinical and laboratory staff throughout Africa.
