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Kenyan 🇰🇪| Advocacy & Comms @aphrc | YALI Alumni | Voice Over Artist | Lover of children | 🏉 @NakuruRFC ⚽️ @MUFC Views = all MINE
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Joined January 2012
Hello 2025! Exodus 33:14: The Lord says, “I will go with you, and I will give you victory.” Isaiah 43:19: “For I am about to do something new! I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry land.” #VerseOfTheYear #HappyNewYear ✨ Enda Nasi 🙏🏽
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The 2025 Africa Health and Development Annual Research Symposium panel discussions are designed to position Africa as a driving force in shaping a fairer, tech-driven global health future. Tomorrow, we kick off the 1st panel discussion on Reimagining Financing for Africa’s
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Research findings are only impactful when they are put into practice to drive impact. APHRC recently studied the Blantyre Prevention Strategy (BPS) in Malawi - a systems-based initiative aimed at detecting risks, boosting service demand, and improving the delivery and
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#IamAPHRC staff today participated in an open conversation on research equity, publishing practices and capacity strengthening with @seyeabimbola a renowned global health champion. This engagement is part of the build up activities that the Center is hosting ahead of the 2025
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The second session of the Research-to-Policy Dialogue Series on Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition (MNCH+N) is happening tomorrow. It will feature keynote presentations and case studies, providing opportunities for knowledge sharing and for developing commitments to
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🔊 Registration is open! Join experts, policymakers, researchers, innovators, and private sector actors from across Africa and beyond for the 2025 Africa Health and Development Annual Research Symposium (AHDARS). It’s happening on November, 19–20, 2025, at our campus in Nairobi
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Day 3 at #ICFP2025! Catch #IamAPHRC’s @doris_omao on the #ICFP Live Stage later today at 🕒 4:00 PM Colombia / 12:00 AM EAT, as she shares key lessons from disseminating findings from the Kenya Abortion Study. She will also walk participants through the communication strategy
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🚨 Webinar Alert Millions across Africa still suffer from Neglected Tropical Diseases, driven by poverty and limited access to healthcare. WHO reports that nearly one in five people globally still need interventions. A major challenge remains: turning research into policy. This
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Team RHNK led by our Executive Director, @nellymunyasia, is on the ground in Bogotá, Colombia, for the International Conference on Family Planning(#ICFP2025)! Before the main conference kicks off, we have been actively participating in several pre-conference sessions; The Youth
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My Day 1 at #ICFP2025 🤩 attended the #YouthSummit & added my voice to conversations on #ComprehensiveSexualityEducation; why we must push for CSE that is inclusive! Big Q: how do we ensure SRH info is shared in a World that is yet to fully embrace CSE? @aphrc #IamAPHRC
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We’re excited to share that the APHRC will be participating in the 7th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP 2025), taking place in Bogotá, Colombia from 3–6 November 2025 (with pre-conference activities from 1 November). The International Conference on Family
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The High Court of Malawi has today ruled in favour of AC, a 13-year-old minor who became pregnant after sexual assault and was denied access to safe abortion care. The Center for Reproductive Rights joined the case as a friend of the court. During judgment, the judge
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This week in Africa 🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮
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The @AfricaCDCYouth have brought so much life to #CPHIA2025. I visited their lovely booth & got to learn so much about their great initiatives. Investing in young people is our passport to a brighter future! #HelloYoungAfrica #YesHealth #YouthatCPHIA2025
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It’s the final day of #CPHIA2025! Four incredible days of collaboration and #African excellence are wrapping up in #Durban, #SouthAfrica — but the conversations continue to inspire action across the continent. 📍 Durban ICC 🗓️ 25 October 2025 🔗 Explore today’s sessions:
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Project Launch:Improving Access&Deepening Accountability for #SRHR in East and Southern Africa! 📢Eliminating harmful practices affecting girls&young women, increasing availability & accessibility of #SRHR products, & strengthening accountability 4progress 4SRHR SDGs #CPHIA2025
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3. “Africa will no longer be the patient of global health policy — it will be the architect of its own health sovereignty.” — H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
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2. “Africa’s health sovereignty is not a slogan: it is our moral duty to ensure that no African child dies or waits for permission from elsewhere to live.” — H.E. John Mahama, President of Ghana
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1. “African countries cannot continue to outsource solutions for their problems externally, yet they can find ways of addressing them financially, particularly those challenges that affect ordinary people. We need to own our sovereignty.” — H.E. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
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⭐️Opening Ceremony #CPHIA2025 Dr. Jean Kaseya, DG @AfricaCDC, starts us off with powerful statements from our African leaders, reflecting Africa’s collective resolve to take charge of its health future. Thread 👇
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#CPHIA2025 kicks off in Durban! We are unpacking what it truly means for Africa to move towards self-reliance in achieving universal health coverage & #HealthSecurity. Excited to connect,learn,& collaborate with changemakers driving the future of Public Health in Africa! @aphrc
The Center’s Johnstone Kotut and Doris Omao, together with colleagues from the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat, are attending the 4th International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2025) in Durban, South Africa, from October 22 to 25, 2025. Under the theme
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