@aphrc

Generating #evidence, strengthening research capacity, and engaging policy to inform action on population health and wellbeing.

Nairobi, Kenya| Dakar, Senegal
Joined January 2010
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📢🥁🔊🎉The latest #IamAPHRC newsletter is out! This edition features stories of collaboration and innovation from across the continent, showing what we can do when stakeholders come together. 📖 Read the latest APHRC newsletter: buff.ly/GdqCkjO #Collaborations
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Almost 4 in 10 adolescent girls and young women do not finish upper secondary school. With only four years remaining to the 2030 deadline for the #SDGs, no country with data has met even half of the 16 targets crucial to adolescent girls’ well-being. #IamAPHRC #WeAreAfrica
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At APHRC, we believe lived experience is vital expertise. On this #WorldMentalHealthDay, we join the call for people with lived experience of mental health conditions to help shape the policies, services, and decisions that affect their lives. #LivedExperience #IamAPHRC
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Environmental sustainability is essential to building resilient communities & safeguarding population health. This #MazingiraDay, we recognize the role of collective action in promoting tree planting, environmental conservation, & sustainable practices #IamAPHRC #WeAreAfrica
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We are pleased to share that #IamAPHRC has been recognized as a high performer in the 2026 Gender and Health Index, featured in the Global 50/50 Report. We are among the 54 organizations out of 198 assessed in the high-performance category. 🔗Read more: buff.ly/Z6cMO4V
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How can health systems better care for people living with multiple chronic conditions and mental health challenges? The M-CARE project aims to inform more integrated, person-centered care across sub-Saharan Africa. Watch the kickoff highlights from @MurangaGovt_021
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The countdown to #AHDARS2026 is on! In just a month, researchers, policymakers, civil society, development partners, media, and other stakeholders will gather to explore how to build African-Centered Data & Knowledge Systems. Register here: buff.ly/G7gTox1
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No one will save Us! We must work together as grassroots organisations to build our systems. We are honoured to have Third Sector Builders lead a session on institutional strengthening at #RiseAndRally2026 because umoja ni nguvu. @aphrc @HennetKenya #CommunityVoices
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GUARD THE GAINS! At #RiseAndRally2026, we’re bringing movements together to strengthen collaboration, protect SRHR progress and build what comes next. Because we rise stronger together. @ReproRightsAFR @aphrc @RaiseYourV_oice @NivisheF #WhenTheySeeUs #CommunityVoices
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Last week, I had the privilege of moderating a session on menstrual health & adolescent girls’ well-being at the just-concluded @GimacNetwork CSO-RECs Meeting in Egypt. The takeaway? Menstrual health needs financing, accountability, data & above all, girls’ voices. #ASRH @aphrc
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This week in Freetown, #IamAPHRC’s research team met with Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education and our partners at Big Girl Job to launch a new study on how well inclusive education is working for girls who are too often left behind. 1/3
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The conversation focused on what life looks like for girls facing barriers like disability, adolescent pregnancy, poverty, and discrimination, & what needs to change so they can stay in school & keep learning. @RatemoJuliet | @DorcasOdhiambo | @njerimbuthia | @Hope_shete 2/3
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This study creates space to talk about how every girl across Sierra Leone can learn and thrive. #InclusiveEducation #GenderEquity #SierraLeone #EducationPolicy #IamAPHRC #WeAreAfrica #APHRCResearch @Aijayi | @PaulOdero | @dia_diama | @gody_adero | @SokhnaT37994755 | 3/3
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Join us later today for a webinar on Evidence to action: Protecting legislative progress for safe abortion in Africa. FR/EN interpretation is available! Time: 3.00 - 4.00 pm EAT Register here: buff.ly/NdJnGru #IamAPHRC #WeAreAPHRC #APHRCResearch
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As part of the 48th Ordinary Session of the @acerwc , #IamAPHRC's @isabelmutuku1 will join partners for a side event examining how legal and policy frameworks can strengthen children’s & adolescents’ access to health services in Africa. 📅October 14, 2026 ⏰5:30–7:00 p.m. SAST
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A question about your health can come at any time. Maybe you are not sure whether a symptom is normal. Maybe you need information about contraception. Maybe you are looking for help after experiencing violence. Or perhaps you simply do not know where to start. For many people, the first step is not walking into a health facility. It is finding someone or something they can turn to for reliable information, guidance and a connection to care. This is where technology can make a difference. At the Africa HealthTech Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, RHNK spotlighted Nena na Binti, our platform that connects people to SRHR information, counselling, psychosocial support and other services, while linking them to healthcare and support where needed. The summit, held under the theme “Wellness for All,” created an opportunity to look at @NenaNaBinti not simply as a call centre, but as a health technology innovation built around a very human problem: how do we make reliable SRHR information and support easier to reach? Through @NenaNaBinti , someone can start a conversation from wherever they are, get information and guidance, and, where necessary, be connected to a healthcare provider or other support within their proximity. And being part of a health technology space also gave us the opportunity to step back and ask: How can we make this better? Across the summit, conversations kept coming back to a few important ideas: technology should solve real problems, communities should have a voice in how systems are designed, digital platforms should work alongside existing health systems, and data privacy and sovereignty cannot be an afterthought. One message particularly resonated: impact is not simply about reach. It is about whether technology actually makes someone’s life easier. Our visit to HDI’s community-led SOGIE-SC centre and call centre in Kigali reinforced this. We saw how technology and community-based approaches can work together to create safer entry points to information and SRHR services, particularly for people who may face stigma or barriers within conventional systems. For Nena na Binti, the next chapter is already taking shape. RHNK is working towards strengthening and complementing the call centre and our digital platforms with a chatbot designed around the real information and support needs of the people who use these services. The goal is not to replace the human connection that makes Nena na Binti what it is. It is to create another door. A door that can help someone find accurate information, understand their options, navigate services and know where to turn while connecting them to human support when they need it. Because the best health technology is not technology for technology’s sake. It is technology that meets people where they are, protects their information, responds to their realities and helps them get closer to the care they need. #AfricaHealthTechSummit #HealthTech #NenaNaBinti @IPPFAR @ippf @PATHtweets @aphrc @AfricaCDC
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This is the future. Mental health cannot be separate from physical health. One roof, one person, one journey to healing. Congratulations APHRC and Murang'a County - a model truly for Africa. #M_CARE #WeAreAfrica
Yesterday in @MurangaGovt_021 , #IamAPHRC launched M-CARE: bringing NCD and mental health care under one roof. National and county leaders joined to shape priorities for timely, joined-up care closer to home. This will be a model for Kenya and beyond. #IamAPHRC #WeAreAfrica
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Uganda has taken an important step. The 2025 Guidelines for Integrating Mental Wellbeing and Psychosocial Support in Educational Institutions give schools a clear foundation for promoting mental health, identifying needs early, supporting and referring learners, and caring for the wellbeing of educators. Our latest policy brief at @aphrc looks closely at the gap between policy and practice, and what it will take to close it. If you work in education, health, or child protection in Uganda or across the region. Read more: aphrc.org/publication/from-f… #IamAPHRC #WeAreAfrica #APHRC
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Grassroots organisations are not just implementers. We are leaders, innovators, organisers and knowledge holders. In 5 days, we gather to make grassroots power visible. We rise. We rally. We lead. @aphrc @HennetKenya #RiseAndRally2026 #WhenTheySeeUs #CommunityVoices
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Yesterday in @MurangaGovt_021 , #IamAPHRC launched M-CARE: bringing NCD and mental health care under one roof. National and county leaders joined to shape priorities for timely, joined-up care closer to home. This will be a model for Kenya and beyond. #IamAPHRC #WeAreAfrica
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