We are looking for two mission-driven individuals to join Access Health Africa’s team!
Read moreGiving Tuesday
This year, Access Health Africa (AHA) is participating in #GivingTuesday - a global day of giving that takes place on November 28th. As a small organization relying on the generosity of individual donors, this fundraiser is critically important to helping reach AHA’s 2024 goals.
Read moreUnder the Baobab
Greetings, friends, volunteers, and supporters!
We write to you from Malawi, where we just wrapped up seven very successful days of surgery at Mitundu Community Hospital… and we have two more days to go! But we need YOU! After treating 155 patients while our international team was on the ground last week, we decided to extend our surgical camp so that the local team at Mitundu can treat 100+ patients from our waiting list!
Read on for an update - thank you for being a supporter!
Read moreReflections on Day 1 at Mitundu Community Hospital
Today was Day 1 for AHA’s visiting surgical team here at Mitundu Community Hospital. Word of our arrival spread like wildfire and the community was ready and waiting when we arrived this morning!
Read moreCyclone Freddy Relief
In February 2023, southern Malawi faced a devastating storm, Cyclone Freddy. We got in contact with AHA-Alum from the area Zuwere to identify needs.
What we found: transporting items delivered in Lilongwe to those affected by Cyclone Freddy.
Here’s our story:
Read moreIntroducing Becky!
Becky and her family moved to Lilongwe with her family last summer for her husband’s job. Since then, Becky has volunteered with AHA transferring our Patient Intake Form to Google Forms, conducting patient interviews, and even delivering food to the visiting surgical team at KCH. Soon, she’ll go with Angela to visit Lyne’s, a young child for whom AHA has arranged a wheelchair and physical therapy, to put her own professional background in physical therapy to use!
Read more2022 Annual Report Released
We are so proud of the work we did in 2022, and so excited for what is to come!
Click here to read AHA’s 2022 Annual Report.
History Made!
What does it feel like to be part of healthcare history? Ask anyone who was in Kamuzu Central Hospital’s OR on Thursday, February 2, 2023. That day, AHA and KCH partnered to complete the facility’s first ever laparoscopic colostomy reversal!
Read moreHow I Became a Nurse -Christina Mtonga
When I was less than 10 years old, I decided I wanted to become a nurse because the nurses had nice houses with electricity and good locations. I was raised by her father and stepmother since my parents separated long before I remember. I experienced many hardships because my stepmother did not care for me. On school holidays, I had to walk on foot all the way home and often went without basic things like sugar and soap. Despite the hardships, I always took position #1 in my class. I overcame the hardships and became a nurse. Now I am proud to provide surgical care to patients in partnership with AHA.
Read moreMphatso Discharged!
Hello Everyone, Here is the latest update about Mphatso, with photos and videos included. On January 11, AHA Program Manager Angela and AHA Volunteer Jonathan visited Mphatso and his mother Aida at the Mercy James Hospital in Malawi. Mphatso had been there for well over six weeks following surgery #2a, then receiving treatment for a post-surgery infection, and finally receiving surgery #2b to close the open wound on his head from surgery #2a…
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