Amref Health Africa - UK

Amref Health Africa - UK The UK office of Amref Health Africa – Africa's health charity. Locally-staffed. Community-led. Why Amref Health Africa? We are working to change this.

Sub-Saharan Africa has a quarter of the world's disease burden, but just 3% of the world's health workers. Amref Health Africa is Africa's leading health charity. Working primarily with women and girls, our vision is of lasting health change within Africa's most vulnerable and remote communities. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, we are a truly African organisation, which combines grassroots development with government partnerships. This ethos defines our community-based approach and echoes across each and every one of our projects. We started life in 1957 as the Flying Doctors of East Africa. Beginning with aeroplanes to provide the most remote communities with health care, we've always used the tools of our time to bridge the gap between heath systems and people. Today we use e-learning, telemedicine, and mobile phones to spread health knowledge and care. Amref's work has won high-profile international awards such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Award for Global Health and the Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Award.

26/09/2026

Mothers across Greater Tonj in the north of South Sudan rely on Dr Mathiang - if anything goes wrong in pregnancy or childbirth he is the only trained surgeon who can help them.

He feels the weight of this responsibility; he regularly works 24-48 hour shifts and more to ensure that every mother that arrives at the hospital is treated as best they can be.

Amref content manager Wesley caught up with Dr Mathiang in a brief break between surgeries.

Help us support Dr Mathiang and other skilled health workers like him on the frontline to save mums and babies - donate.amrefuk.org/south-sudan-sm

For Dr Mathiang Agany, every operation carries enormous responsibility.As the only trained obstetrician in Greater Tonj,...
25/09/2026

For Dr Mathiang Agany, every operation carries enormous responsibility.

As the only trained obstetrician in Greater Tonj, South Sudan, he knows that for mothers and newborns, access to care can mean the difference between life and death.

Health workers like Dr Agany are vital to South Sudan’s health system. Help support life-saving maternal and newborn healthcare in South Sudan today https://donate.amrefuk.org/south-sudan-sm/

📷 Obstetrician Dr Mathiang Agany (c) Amref Health Africa/Wesley Koskei

Every mother deserves access to life-saving healthcare. When Abak faced a life-threatening emergency during labour, Amre...
24/09/2026

Every mother deserves access to life-saving healthcare.

When Abak faced a life-threatening emergency during labour, Amref-trained health workers were there to provide an emergency caesarean section, saving her life and the lives of her twins.

Help give more mothers in South Sudan the chance Abak had. Together, we can protect mothers and newborns https://donate.amrefuk.org/south-sudan-sm/

📷 All images (c) Amref Health Africa/Wesley Koskei (1,4) Dr Mathiang Agany with Abak Malok and her twins, who he helped save by performing an emergency caesarean (2,3) Surgeons at Tonj Civil Hospital, South Sudan.

23/09/2026

Mothers arrive to Dr Mathiang's operating theatre having travelled 100 miles and more by motorbike, ambulance, car, or stretcher - often in the full throes of labour.

His goal is simple: save their life and that of their baby.

But there are enormously complex challenges for doctors like Dr Mathiang in South Sudan. Your help means that he and others like him are supported to save more lives.

Donate today to help another mother survive childbirth donate.amrefuk.org/south-sudan-sm

South Sudan is one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman to give birth, and ongoing conflict has straine...
22/09/2026

South Sudan is one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman to give birth, and ongoing conflict has strained its already fragile health system to breaking point.

Amref trains health workers to support mothers through pregnancy and childbirth, but we need your support. Visit https://donate.amrefuk.org/south-sudan-sm/ to bring vital care closer.

📷 All images (c) Amref Health Africa/Wesley Koskei in South Sudan (1) Baby Ayuek Malual Magruk held by her mum Theresa Ajok (2,4) Mother Wut Akol with her eight-month-old daughter, Abuoch Jiel Bak with nutrition assistant Petero Mabior at an outreach site (3) Dr Olang Alew, a general surgeon at Tonj Civil Hospital

*UNICEF Data- Maternal mortality rate *South Sudan Medical Journal

20/09/2026

Women like Abak face a reality that no-one should.

For 4 in 5 women in South Sudan, they will give birth at home without any skilled health worker to help them. If anything goes wrong, they are often a full day's travel or more from the nearest health facility that can help them.

Abak reached hospital after three days in labour in excruciating pain. But, she reached there in time for lifesaving surgery. Her twin babies Agaak and Akur were born healthy, and she is recovering.

Too many mothers do not get the care Abak did.

Support us to reach them with the lifesaving care them and their babies deserve - donate.amrefuk.org/south-sudan-aa

19/09/2026

A 'thank you' for a life saved is more than just words. For Dr Mathiang, it's the motivation that keeps him going through his toughest days.

When there is no electricity at the hospital, when there is no anaesthetic drugs, when a women arrives at hospital too late because the journey was too long and too expensive.

Women continue to arrive - births do not stop.

Support the work of specialist health workers like Dr Mathiang, visit donate.amrefuk.org/south-sudan-aa

17/09/2026

What makes the difference between life and death for mums and babies in dangerous childbirth?

Dr Mathiang of Tonj Civil Hospital, South Sudan spells it out:
▶️ Early arrival to a health facility
▶️Early diagnosis of the issue for the correct treatment
▶️Early intervention
⏩ To ensure a good outcome.

In a country where the health system is under intense strain from conflict and underfunding, following that equation is a daily struggle.

Stay tuned for more from Dr Mathiang on his work and how you can help.

16/09/2026

South Sudan is one of the most dangerous places to give birth in the world.

For every 100,000 live births, 1,150 mothers will die - and most of them from preventable pregnancy and childbirth complications.

Dr Mathiang is the only qualified specialist obstetric surgeon in the whole of Greater Tonj - with a population of approximately 1 million people.

His work means more mums and babies survive pregnancy and childbirth, to get a brighter start in life.

Read more at donate.amrefuk.org/south-sudan-aa

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