Africa Health Organisation

Africa Health Organisation (AHO) is an international health agency with the mandate to provide health and social care in Africa. It is the newest and most recently established international health agency covering the whole African continent and the diaspora. It is an independent health agency run by the people for the people. It is part of the people system. AHO provides both technical cooperation and health service delivery.

We also deliver humanitarian services across Africa where it is prone to civil wars, natural disasters, man-made disasters and epidemics.

Our vision is delivering high quality sustainable health service and be the major catalyst for ensuring that all the peoples of Africa enjoy optimal health.

Our mission is to lead strategic collaborative efforts among countries in Africa and other partners to promote equity in health, to combat disease, and to improve the quality of, and lengthen the lives of the peoples of Africa.

Our main areas of work are:

• Modernising and developing health systems in Africa

• Promoting health through the life-course

• Combating communicable diseases

• Tackling non communicable diseases

• Addressing determinants of health

• Delivering health services

• Leading disaster preparedness, surveillance and response