AMREF is training health workers in close to 40 African countries and beyond. Through its training, AMREF aims to strengthen the capacity and capability of health and health-related professionals and institutions.
Health services cannot function without sufficient numbers of skilled, motivated and supported health workers. Yet estimates suggest that Africa needs one million more health workers in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals for health.
Every year AMREF trains more than 10,000 community health workers who bring health close closer to people’s homes in some of Africa’s most marginalised communities. We also train doctors, nurses, community midwives, clinical officers, laboratory technicians and pharmacists.
AMREF’s training takes 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.
Established in 1973, the International Training Centre in Nairobi provides a host of training courses, with an emphasis on continuing education for all rural health workers.
One of AMREF’s most notable award-winning training programmes is an innovative eLearning programme, which helps to upgrade the skills of 20,000 nurses in Kenya. It is hoped that this programme will be replicated in other African countries, which suffer from similar health worker shortages.
