AMREF HEALTH AFRICA LAUNCH ITS NEW IDENTITY

Country Director, AMREF, Dr. Festus Illako cutting the ribbon during the AMREF Health Africa launch new identity. The frame Ceremony held yesterday April 10, 2014 AMREF office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Country Director, AMREF, Dr. Festus Illako with Amref Health Africa staff during the new identity launch

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AMREF, the leading international African organisation in health today rebranded to Amref Health Africa after 57 years as the African Medical and Research Foundation.

A key reason for the rebrand is to ensure that our name more accurately reflects the nature and scope of our work, which has grown beyond research and provision of basic medical services to strengthening of health systems through training and capacity building and strategic programming in areas such as maternal and child health, HIV, Water and Sanitation, TB and Malaria, and clinical and diagnostics services.

“Our new name exemplifies our commitment to improving health in Africa through a wide a range of critical programmes and services so that we can achieve lasting health change for the people of Kenya and Africa in general,” said Director General Dr Teguest Guerma.

Although we are rebranding, our focus remains the same: communities continue to be the primary beneficiaries of our work. Our rebrand will in effect put us in a more strategic position to continue working with our partners and aligning ourselves as an African-led and Africa-based health organisation seeking to meet the needs of the most vulnerable populations on the continent.

Since 1957, Amref Health Africa has been providing health services to the most vulnerable communities, working in partnership with a cross-section of stakeholders including governments. With seven offices in Africa and 10 in Europe and North America, Amref Health Africa reaches over 30 countries with its work and has impacted the lives of millions of people living in hard-to-reach parts of Africa.

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HEALTH BENEFITS OF SMOKING CIGARETTES

1. Smoking lowers risk of knee-replacement surgery
While smokers might go broke buying a pack of cigarettes, they can at least save money by avoiding knee-replacement surgery. Surprising results from a new study have revealed that men who smoke had less risk of undergoing total joint replacement surgery than those who never smoked.
The study, from the University of Adelaide in Australia, appears in the July issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. What could be the connection? Knee-replacement surgery was more common among joggers and the obese; smokers rarely jog, and they are less likely to be morbidly obese.
After controlling for age, weight and exercise, the researchers were at a loss to explain the apparent, albeit slight protective effects of smoking for osteoporosis. It could be that the nicotine in tobacco helps prevent cartilage and joint deterioration.
2. Smoking lowers risk of Parkinson’s disease
Numerous studies have identified the uncanny inverse relationship between smoking and Parkinson’s disease. Long-term smokers are somehow protected against Parkinson’s, and it’s not because smokers die of other things earlier. [10 Easy Paths to Self-Destruction]
The most recent, well-conducted study was published in a March 2010 issue of the journal Neurology. Far from determining a cause for the protective effect, these researchers found that the number of years spent smoking, more so than the number of cigarettes smoked daily, mattered more for a stronger protective effect.

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