

PROTECT NURSES,
SAVE LIVES
The Covid-19 Africa Action Network for Nurses and Nurse-Midwives is a global, not-for-profit, humanitarian volunteer organization. Our main purpose is to protect African nurses and save lives by providing them with locally made reusable face masks.


AAN Projects
The Covid-19 Africa Action Network for Nurses and Nurse-Midwives (AAN) funds Nurse and Nurse-Midwife led projects to locally produce and distribute evidence based re-usable face masks. Click on the link below to mearn more about AAN’s projects.
AAN Guidelines
AAN, in association with Dr Janine Jagger and numerous Nurses, Nurse-Midwives and other Healthcare professionals, has developed guidelines for the local production of evidence based re-usable face masks in support of Nurses and Nurse-Midwives gaining agency over the supply of vital PPE they require in order to deliver the vital care everyone else requires.
LATEST NEWS
- The Kenyan Reproductive Health Network Kenya and the Technical University of Kenya Garner the AAN 2021 Award for Innovation and Sustainability in Health Worker Safety09 December 2021 – Geneva, Switzerland: The Covid-19 Africa Action Network for Nurses and Nurse-Midwives (AAN) and the AAN Award Committee* are honoured to announce that the Reproductive Health Network Kenya (RHNK) and the Technical…
- AAN* nominates Malawi Nurse/Midwife Charity Salima, founder of Achikondi Women Community Birth Clinic, for Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award«Charity continues to give and serve selflessly. I support this nomination 100%!» Dorothy Ngoma, Maternal & Child Health Special Advisor to the President of Malawi « It’s time to recognise nurses who spent a lifetime…
- AAN and the Eswatini Nurses Association (ENA) donated 25000 masks to the MOHAAN and the Eswatini Nurses Association (ENA) donated 25000 evidence-based reusable protective face masks to the Eswatini Ministry of Health. AAN awarded a 10000 USD grant to ENA to produce masks locally, in partnership with…