Blog and Publications

Expanding access to maternal, newborn and primary healthcare services through private-community-government partnership clinic models in rural Kenya: the Ubuntu-Afya kiosk model

Fifteen counties contribute 98.7% of the maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in Kenya. The dismal maternal and newborn (MNH) ...

Family Planning Services in Kenya during a Transition: Utilization Trends across Counties

Kenya reports one of the highest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. Family planning (FP), which is used both ...

CICF Learning Series: Ubuntu-Afya Kiosks

Ubuntu-Afya Kiosks: An innovative partnership for extending quality healthcare services to underserved communities. In Homa Bay, a three-way partnership between the community, ...

Digitising Medical Records to Improve Quality Efficiency and Quality of Care

STONE-HMIS®: Developed by Afya Research Africa (ARA) and rolled out in Homa Bay and Turkana counties, STONE-HMIS is a digital platform that ...

Strengthening Primary Care in Rural Kenya through a Health Management Information System (HMIS)

Access to healthcare in rural and remote areas of low- and middle-income countries is often limited, with lack of infrastructure, distance from ...

Carbon Trust – Project: Transforming Energy Access for Better Health Care Services

Health care development is today mainly driven by electricity, which is a critical problem in Africa. Energy is often either unreliable or ...

Daktari Nitie: My experiences as a junior doctor and researcher

As a junior medical doctor, many times when I visited my parents in rural Western Kenya, I would be crowded out ...

2016 Duke Symposium on Scaling Innovations in Global Health

The Symposium will highlight important lessons and insights from 25 remarkable global health social entrepreneurs who are transforming health care in ...