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updated: 4/18/09

African Medical and Research Foundation, AMREF, is a group that helps any country, but mostly countries in Africa. They were founded in 1957 in Nairobi, Kenya. Three surgeons started the organization by volunteering as "Flying doctors." What the organization does is: create healthy communities, fight diseases, especially HIV/AIDS, train health workers, strengthen health systems, and advocacy and research.

AMREF is currently helping HIV/AIDS in these ways. This organization takes care of kids who are by themselves and have aids. These kids don't know how to deal with it so they take them and help them out. They take people who like to help or that want to help and train them to heal and cure these kids with HIV/AIDS. They are helping the country not to be poor and by getting resources by treating and helping people with this disease. They are trying to reach to the communities and see if any of them would want to or like to help cure this. This means that they are raising and improving rates for TB so that no one else would get it.
 * They take care of kids who are orphaned that have AIDS.
 * Provide additional healers.
 * reducing poverty
 * working with communities
 * increase cure rates for TB