Amref is the largest Africa-based international health development organisation delivering health services and training to over 30 million people annually in 35 countries in Africa.

Headquartered in Kenya and founded in 1957 as the Flying Doctors of East Africa, which brought critical health services to remote communities, Amref continues to evolve and innovate its approach to increase sustainable health access in communities.

Our strong technical expertise is matched by a robust operating platform, which supports our community-based last-mile health delivery approach, which has been refined over the last 65 years.

We have strong, trusted partnerships and collaboration with governments, national, regional, and global policymakers, and multi-sectoral partnerships that support holistic and diversified community health programming. Our expanded resource mobilization strategy includes a lens on social enterprise, as well as an expanding geographic footprint across Africa.

Our subsidiaries include Amref Flying Doctors, Amref Health Innovations, and the Amref International University.

We have 10 offices in Europe and North America that focus on supporting our programs through project management, fundraising and generating awareness.

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