AMREF Ethiopia (African Medical and Research Foundation (2))

The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) is an international African organisation headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

AMREF's Vision lasting health change in Africa:.
AMREF's mission is to ensure that every African can enjoy the right to good health by helping to create vibrant networks of informed communities that work with empowered health care providers in strong health systems. AMREF has 50 years’ experience in health development. In 1957, three surgeons founded the Flying Doctors Service of East Africa, laying the foundation for what is now one of the continent’s leading health development and research organisations. Today, AMREF implements its projects through country programmes in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Southern Sudan and South Africa. Training and consulting support are provided to an additional 30 African countries.

Knowledge is a core product of AMREF’s activities. AMREF implements projects to learn, and shares this evidence-based knowledge with others to advocate for changes in health policy and practice. Based on the belief that health is a basic human right, AMREF seeks to empower communities to take control of their health and to establish a vibrant and participatory health care system made up of communities, health workers and governments.

Our Strategic Focus:
AMREF’s strategy seeks to strengthen health systems and to design and enhance interventions that improve people’s access to health through their active participation. Informed by Africa’s health crisis, AMREF’s comparative advantage and five decades’ experience of working with communities and health systems in the region, the AMREF has seven strategic directions :
1. Making pregnancy safe and expanding reproductive health
2.Reducing morbidity and mortality among children
3.scaling up HIV,TB and malaria response
4.Prevention and control of diseases related to water ,sanitation and hygiene
5.Increasing access by disadvantaged communities to quality medical,surgical and diagnostic service
6.Developing a strong research and innovation base to contribute to health improvement in Africa
7.Creating a strong, unified, global AMREF