Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia

Amref Health Africa focuses its health priorities on the health of women and children, believing through them the health of the whole community can be improved. In 2011, Amref Health Africa launched its three year Business Plan 2011-14 that defines our health priorities under seven Amref Health Africa’s Strategic Directions (SD) namely:
SD 1: Making pregnancy safe and expanding reproductive health
SD2: Reducing morbidity and mortality among children
SD3: Scaling up responses to HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria
SD4: Preventing and controlling diseases related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
SD5: Increasing access by disadvantaged communities to quality medical, surgical and diagnostic services
SD6: Developing stronger research and innovation base to contribute to health improvement in Africa
SD7: Develop a stronger and unified ONE AMREF

To attain these, AMREF based her programmatic approaches on three main health system building blocks namely:
- Human Resources for Health – this includes training and re-skilling of community and other cadres of health workers
- Health Management Information Systems – we believe in the use of health information for planning and programming
- Community Systems Strengthening – this includes giving communities knowledge and skills to promote good health, engaging with grassroots structures, and strengthening linkages between communities and health facilities