September 2010 Events

AMREF Events

September 15, 2010
4:00-7:00pm
Panel discussion with His Excellency Ambassador Elkanah Odembo, Ambassador to the United States from Kenya; Lucy Chesire; and David Hoos MD, MPH on the screening of the film "The Test".
Organized by the Global Health Council 
The Historical Society of Washington DC
801 K Street NW at Mount Vernon Square
Washington DC 
RSVP to rsvp@globalhealth.org  

September 19, 2010
9:30-11:30am
"Accelerating Action on the MDGs: Delivering for Girls, Women and Babies"
MDG Summit Side Event
Organized by Women Deliver 
More info

September 19, 2010
3:00-5:00pm 
"Looking Back and Looking Ahead: What will it take to reach the health MDGs?"
MDG Panel Discussion 
Organized by the Global Health Council
The Princeton Club
15 West 43rd Street
New York, NY
More info

September 19, 2010
6:00-7:30pm
"The Test" 
Film Screening
Organized by the Global Health Council
The Princeton Club
15 West 43rd Street
New York, NY
More info

September 20, 2010
9:30am 
Women: Inspiration & Enterprise Symposium
Organized by the White Ribbon Alliance 
Skylight West
500 West 36th Street
New York 
More info
Tickets 

September 21, 2010
11:00am-1:00pm
"No Health Workforce, No Health MDG: Not acceptable!"
Side Event on Human Resources for Health at United Nations MDG Summit
Co-organized by Norway, Cameroon, Brazil, Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative (HWAI) Network, and Global Health Workforce Alliance


Additional meetings taking place during the MDG Summit can be found Here

Training nurses

Like many sub-Saharan countries, Kenya is struggling with a critical shortage of qualified nurses.

AMREF helped the Nursing Council of Kenya to create a distance-learning curriculum to upgrade 20,000 nurses from certificate to registered level.

After completing the program, nurses are qualified to treat major diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria - and thus saving lives. 

Millennium development goals

The United Nations Millennium development goals are targets that the international community has pledged to reach by 2015.  AMREF is focused on achieving the goals in bold.  

  1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  2. Achieve universal primary education
  3. Promote gender equality and empower women
  4. Reduce child mortality
  5. Improve maternal health
  6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
  7. Ensure environmental sustainability
  8. Develop a global partnership for development1

1. World Health Organization, 2010