Annual Financial Report 2005 - Amref

Dr Michael Smalley, AMREF Director General (right), receives the Gates Award for Global Health from William H. Gates, Sr., Co-chair of the Gates Foundation as Prof Miriam Were, AMREF Chair, looks on.
The award recognised AMREF’s extraordinary efforts in improving health in Africa’s poorest communities, building local health infrastructure, and documenting its success to guide others
AMREF’s 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 almost 50 years experience in health development. In 1957, three surgeons founded the Flying Doctors’ Service of East Africa, an
organisation that would later grow and develop into the continent’s premier medical research organisation. AMREF is the only international health
development NGO that has its headquarters in Africa, and 97% of the staff are African. AMREF implements projects to learn, and shares that learning
with others to advocate for changes in health policy and practice. Working with and through communities, health systems and Ministries of Health,
AMREF aims to close the gap that prevents people from accessing their basic right to health.