Fight Disease
AMREF works to stop people from dying of easily preventable and treatable diseases such as HIV,TB, malaria and diarrhea. Our work educates communities on prevention while bringing good quality and affordable treatment closer to people’s homes.
Urgent Need
- Sub-Saharan Africa is home to more than two thirds of the global population living with HIV (22.5million people) but only a little over 10% of its population has access to anti-retroviral drugs.
- Dangerous drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis have now emerged in Africa.
- Malaria is the biggest killer of African children.
- Diarrhea claims the lives of 5,000 children every day.
- A woman in Africa has a 1 in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy of childbirth, compared to a 1 in 4,000 risk in wealthier country like Canada.
AMREF is tackling the deadliest diseases in Africa, but not in isolation. We are strengthening health systems to be more effective in dealing with all areas of health care and services.
AMREF is;
- Preventing and controlling new infections of HIV/AIDS
- Raising awareness about prevention and treatment of Tuberculosis
- Educating people about the causes of Malaria and prevention methods
- Improving Maternal Health
- Decreasing Water-borne Diseases
