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We Can End Cervical Cancer

Find out the facts about cervical cancer and the human papilliomavirus (HPV) that causes it. Help educate other women in your life too.

16 Days Of Activism Gender – Based Violance

16 days of actvism against gender – based violence, The theme of the year 2022: Unite! Activism to end violence against women and girls.

**AAN* launches peer-to-peer advocacy campaign for Increased vaccination uptake in eastern & southern African countries**

14 November 2022, Ishaka Bushenyi, and West Nile Uganda; Nairobi, Kenya: Recognizing the Covid vaccine hesitancy in many African countries despite vaccine availability and alarmed at WHO-Gavi indications of a decline in all immunization coverage during the Covid pandemic including…

AAN Partners with Direct Relief and BD to Support Locally Produced PPE for Frontline Health Care Workers in Southern and Eastern Africa

January 2021: The Covid Africa Action Network for Nurses and Nurse-Midwives(ANN) is proud to announce its partnership with Direct Relief and BD supporting AAN initiatives to enhance the safety of nurses, nurse-midwives, and other health care workers on the COVID…

AAN Founding Member Fadwa A Affara unanimously selected as 2020 recipient of the prestigious Princess Srinagarindra Award

Bangkok, October 2020: We are proud to announce that AAN Founding Member, Fadwa Ahmed Affara RGN, MA, MSc, MEd, is the 2020 recipient of the Princess Srinagarindra Award, for her outstanding achievements in the area of nursing regulation for quality…

Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera appoints Dorothy Ngoma, Nurse-Midwife and AAN Founding Member as Special Adviser to the President on Maternal Mortality and Reproductive Health.

Lilongwe, October 2020: Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has appointed Ms. Dorothy Gillian Ngoma, a Nurse-Midwife and Community Health Specialist, as Special Advisor to the President of Malawi on issues related to maternal mortality and reproductive health. A former President…

Ugandan Nursing Students Garner AAN Award for Innovation and Sustainability in Health Worker Safety in the Context of COVID

The Students’ Association of Kampala International University (KIU) School of Nursing took on the challenge of PPE shortages, designing & producing reusable facemasks for health workers (HCWs). The WHO urges all stakeholders to “Speak up for health worker safety!” Ishaka-Bushenyi,…

Stop COVID in Africa! Protect Nurses. Save Lives.

The COVID Africa Action Network for Nurses & Nurse-Midwives launches a PPE crowdfunding campaign in solidarity with nurses and nurse-midwives fighting the coronavirus on the front lines in eastern and southern Africa. (Link to Crowdfunding site) June 2020: Geneva, Kampala,…