ACHEST participated at the Afya Bora Meeting in Nairobi-Kenya

Afya bora1Afya Bora Consortium invited AFREhealth to speak at the Mid-Fellowship Meeting for the Afya Bora Consortium Fellowship in Global Health Leadership which is supported by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and PEPFAR. The meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya at the Fairview Hotel on May 31st and June 1st, 2019.
Dr. Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde, Director at the African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST) who doubles as the Secretary AFREhealth represented AFREhealth at Mid-Fellowship Meeting and presented on AFREhealth activities and the vision for Africa.
The Afya Bora Consortium aims to contribute to health systems strengthening in African partner countries by implementing a leadership training program targeting African and US health professionals. The Afya Bora (“better health” in Swahili) fellowship model focuses on training leaders for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and research programs.
The consortium is in its seventh year and has graduated 164 fellows, 68 nurses, 87 doctors, and 9 public health professionals.
The meeting brought together 25 Fellows, Consortium Working Group members, key stakeholders, other representatives from participating African and US institutions to discuss current goals of the training and the desired outcomes of participation in the fellowship.
Enthusiastic young African health professionals; nurses, medical doctors, epidemiologists among others from 5 African countries that included: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana and Cameroon attended the meeting.
The fellows presented their work which was very inspiring to listen through whose aims resonated very well to those of AFREhealth and they were encouraged to register and become members of AFREhealth as well as attend the upcoming AFREhealth symposium which their leadership has attended severally and made presentations at.Prof. Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde-Secretary AFREhealth making a presentation at the Afya Bora Meeting in Nairobi.1
The Afya Bora Consortium is grappling with the issue of sustainability beyond their funding mandate. They were happy to hear about how MEPI/NEP has transitioned into AFREhealth where Dr. Kiguli-Malwadde shared with them best practices of sustainability and encouraged them to see how they could team up with AFREhealth and sustain some of their activities through AFREhealth programs.