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International Health NGO's In Africa And Their Websites by ProfDumbledor(m): 3:44pm On May 25, 2016
I just made a list of Health NGO's in Africa and their websites. This might be of help to those seeking partnerships, NGO jobs and donations

General
• AMREF- African Medical and Research Foundation
http://www.amref.org/default.htm
The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to improve the health of disadvantaged people in Africa as a means for them to escape poverty and improve the quality of their lives. AMREF has defined six priority areas for intervention: HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, malaria, safe water and environmental sanitation, family health, clinical outreach, disaster management and emergency and response.
• EQUINET- the Regional Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
http://www.equinetafrica.org/
EQUINET is an African-based network of professionals, civil society members, policy makers, state officials and others within the region who have come together, to promote and realize shared values of equity and social justice in health. Equinet works to understand equity in health; promote equity values in policy and practice, and use human rights as a tool for health equity; promote health equity in economic and trade policy; and understand links between poverty, deprivation and health equity and improving household resources for health.
• Kabissa- African Civil Society Contact Directory
http://www.kabissa.org/contact/browse.php
This is a list of small, community-based organizations working on issues related to health in Africa, provided by Kabissa. Program descriptions and contact information is provided for each entry. Kabissa is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering African civil society organizations to use information and communication technology effectively for the benefit of their communities.
• Global Alliance for Africa
http://www.globalallianceafrica.org/
Global Alliance for Africa was established by a group of healthcare professionals and other concerned individuals from eight countries in Africa, North America and Europe in order to support self-sustaining, community-based approaches to health care, specifically in maternal and child health. They work to collaborate with African organizations and communities that are taking innovative approaches to health care needs in Africa.
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation- Global Health Program
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/
The foundation's Global Health Program is focused on reducing global health inequities by accelerating the development, deployment and sustainability of health interventions save lives and dramatically reduce the disease burden in developing countries.
• The Wellcome Trust- Overseas Programs
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node4240.html
The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity based in the UK that funds research to improve human and animal health. This site provides links to information about the Wellcome Trust's Africa-based research programs.
• Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center
http://www.arsrc.org/en/index.htm
Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center is part of a Ford Foundation grant-making initiative, "Global Dialogue of Sexual Health and Well Being" aimed at giving visibility, depth and legitimacy to the field of sexuality. The goal of the center is to promote more informed and affirming public dialogue on human sexuality and to contribute to positive changes in the emerging field of sexuality by creating mechanisms for learning at the regional level.
• Johns Hopkins School of Public Health- Center for Communications Programs
http://www.jhuccp.org/africa/regional/index.shtml
This site provides links to various public health information programs around Africa sponsored by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Heatlh.
• The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)
http://www.aphrc.org/strategicplan/intro.html
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a non-profit, non-governmental international organization committed to conducting high-quality, policy-relevant research on the population and health-related issues facing sub-Saharan Africa in the next century. APHRC is an autonomous organization headquartered in Kenya and staffed by an international team of African scientists. The center provides research fellowships for garduate and post-doctoral students.
• Action Health Incorporated
http://www.actionhealthinc.org/about/about.htm
Action Health Incorporated (AHI) is dedicated to improving the health of Nigerian adolescents.
• The Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies
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The Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, based in South Africa, focuses on demographic research related to health. The Africa Centre aims to advance scientists' understanding of rural African health behaviours, lives and society.
• Africa Action- Africa's Right to Health Campaign
http://www.africaaction.org/campaign/index.php
Africa Action initiated the Africa's Right to Health Campaign to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the broader structural problems that have driven its spread on the African continent. They work in the United States to bring together a base of activists who share not only a commitment to these goals, but also a willingness to take action in order to achieve them.
• Bush Hospital Foundation
http://www.bushhospitalfoundation.org/
The Bush Hospital Foundation is a charity incorporated by the Royal court in the Island of Jersey. It is a field active international agency which funds medical projects in Sub Saharan Africa by, for example, supplying vehicles and grants for medical projects in sub Saharan Africa.
• HealthServe
http://www.healthserve.org/
HealthServe is a ministry of Christian Medical Fellowship. It exists to mobilise, envision and equip Christian healthcare professionals & students into Christian global healthcare mission.
• Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS)
http://www.cafs.org/
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) is an African institution dedicated to strengthening the capacities of organisations and individuals working in the field of reproductive health, population and development in order to contribute to improving the quality of life of families in sub-Saharan Africa. It is fully autonomous international non-governmental organisation with offices in Kenya and Togo.
• Eastern Africa Network for Trypanosomiasis EANETT
http://www.eanett.org
The Eastern Africa Network for Tyypanosomiasis aims at establishing collaboration in research, training and control of trypanosomosis, links for exchange of information and technologies through workshops, technical exchange visits, MSc and PhD programmes, and an annual conference.
• Famafrique, Le Site Web Femmes d'Afrique Francophone
http://www.famafrique.org/
Famafrique is a Senegalese organization that works to promote women's development issues and communication about those issues within Francophone Africa. The site, which is in French, offers a list of African organizations that work for women's development issues, including health issues.
• Health Systems Trust
http://www.healthlink.org.za/
Health Systems Trust is an independent non-government organisation established in 1992 to support the transformation of the South African health system.
• International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology
http://www.icipe.org/icipe/research_areas/human_health/index.html
Established in Kenya in 1970, ICIPE's objectives are to help ensure food security and better health for humankind and its livestock, to protect the environment and to conserve and make better use of natural resources.
• National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) Tanzania

http://livehealthyafrica..com.ng/2016/05/health-ngos-community-health.html
http://www.nimr.or.tz/Pages/About_us.html
The National Institute For Medical research (NIMR) is a parastatal institution which is responsible for carrying out, controlling, coordinating, registration, monitoring, evaluation and promoting of health research in Tanzania. NIMR's major research areas are malaria, HIV/AIDS and sexual transmitted infections (STI), URTI, diarrhoeal disease, pneumonia, intestinal worms, eye infections, skin infections, Anaemia, and Trauma/accidents.
• SA Medical Research Council
http://www.mrc.ac.za/home.htm
The Medical Research Council of South Africa aims to improve the nation's health status and quality of life through relevant and excellent health research aimed at promoting equity and development. The website offers links to funding opportunities, recent research, news and contact information.
• Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI)
http://www.agricta.org/partners/ncr/tmri1.htm
The Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI) part of Sudan's National Centre for Research, was established in 1972. The main goal of the TMRI is to undertake applied research programmes on the transmission and control of parasitic diseases, improve the diagnostic methodology and implement new finer tools for the control of endemic diseases in the Sudan.
HIV/AIDS Organizations
• ACHAP: The African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships
http://www.achap.org/
ACHAP is a collaboration between the Government of Botswana (GOB), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Merck Company Foundation/Merck & Co., Inc., to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS in Botswana. ACHAP, established in July 2000, supports the goals of the GOB to decrease HIV incidence and significantly increase the rate of diagnosis and the treatment of the disease, by rapidly advancing prevention programmes, healthcare access, patient management and treatment of HIV/AIDS.
• USAID- HIV/AIDS
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/index.html
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sponsors extensive public health interventions targeting HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa through its Bureau for Global Health (GH). USAID is a partner in the $15 billion President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, announced by President Bush in 2003 with programs in Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. This website provides information about the program as well as access to relevant news and online publications.
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)- HIV/AIDS in Africa
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cidaweb/webcountry.nsf/AllDocIds/2E9C2CB5BACEE92385256ECC006B36EC?OpenDocument
This link connects to information and resources related to CIDA's efforts to address the complex and far-reaching implications of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Canada is directly contributing to the fight against HIV/AIDS in many countries in Africa. In 2000, CIDA committed $90 million over five years through bilateral programs alone to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa.
• VSO: Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa
http://www.vso.org.uk/about/programme_initiatives/raisa.asp
RAISA (Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa) is a four-year VSO initiative seeking to strengthen the response to the HIV & AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa. It aims to join forces with government institutions and civil society organizations to provide effective prevention, treatment, care and advocacy for people affected by HIV & AIDS, and to mitigate the personal, social and economic impact of the pandemic.

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Re: International Health NGO's In Africa And Their Websites by ProfDumbledor(m): 3:45pm On May 25, 2016
Malaria Organizations

• African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET)
http://www.amanet-trust.org/index.html
AMANET is a Tanzania based organization that is working to provide a forum for scientists and policy makers involved in the planning, coordination, and execution of malaria vaccination trials in Africa. The website includes a newsletter archive, workshop reports, a discussion forum, meetings and calls for applications and papers.
Sickle Cell
• Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria
http://www.sicklecellfoundation.com/
Sickle Cell Foundation is a Nigerian non-profit organization based in Lagos that aims to optimally enhance the quality of life of individuals with sickle cell disorder and reducing, as much as possible, the burden of the disorder in the community.
Women's Health
• Fistula Hospital
http://www.fistulahospital.org/hospital/
The Fistula Hospital based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia specializes in the treatment of obstetric fistula. The hospital is supported by the Fistula Foundation (formerly the American Friends Foundation for Childbirth Injuries), which is a non-profit organization that provides medical assistance to women who sustain injuries during child birth.
• Tostan~Education about African Women's Health and Human Rights
http://www.tostan.org/
Tostan is an international, non-governmental organization based in Senegal, West Africa, with programs in the Gambia, Burkina Faso and Guinea. Tostan empowers African communities to take charge of their own development. This page helps educate the public on the practice of female genital cutting. The organization, Tostan, is dedicated to the abolishment of this practice through the education of the local population.

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