Health Worker Educates Women on Safe Pregnancy

Almaz, an AMREF-trained health worker, makes a home visit in Doiso, Ethiopia. Her services to the village’s 6,070 inhabitants include pre-natal care, sanitation and nutritional advice.

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Better Maternal Health for 500,000 Women in Africa

Kenya Women and Girls

More than 250,000 women die each year in sub-Saharan Africa during pregnancy and childbirth due to a lack of basic medical care. Health workers, in particular, are desperately needed. AMREF is expanding its maternal health programs to help stop these needless deaths. Over the next 5 years, we will train 18,000 health workers that can save mothers lives, including 3,000 new midwives. We need your support to help ensure safer pregnancies and deliveries for women-at-risk in Africa!

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