AMREF Receives $2.9M From Accenture To Train Kenyan Nurses About Malaria, Other Infectious Diseases

U.S. consulting firm Accenture on Tuesday announced that it is donating $2.9 million in funding, services and equipment to the African Medical & Research Foundation to help the organization train 26,000 Kenyan nurses to treat and prevent malaria and other infectious diseases, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. The training will be conducted under AMREF's five-year initiative that aims to create 32 regional centers throughout Kenya where nurses will be trained using Accenture's electronic learning systems to compensate for a lack of instructors (AFP/Yahoo! News, 6/14). Earlier this month, AMREF received the $1 million 2005 Gates Award for Global Health from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their efforts over nearly 50 years to improve health in Africa's poor communities, build up local health infrastructure and help guide others (GlobalHealthReporting.org, 6/2).