The Africa Health Organisation (AHO) is an international health agency that aims to improve health in Africa and the diaspora through strategic collaboration, health system development, disease prevention, and service delivery. It works on a wide range of issues, including combating communicable and non-communicable diseases, promoting health across the life-course, and leading disaster preparedness efforts. The organization operates as a private limited company and seeks to achieve high-quality, sustainable health services for all Africans.
Mission and Vision
Mission: To lead collaborative efforts among African countries and other partners to promote health equity, combat disease, and improve the quality and length of life in Africa.
Vision: To deliver high-quality, sustainable health services and be a major catalyst for ensuring optimal health for all people in Africa.
Key areas of work
Modernizing and developing health systems
Promoting health through the life-course
Combating communicable and non-communicable diseases
Addressing determinants of health, such as gender-based violence, and supporting vulnerable groups
Delivering health services
Leading disaster preparedness, surveillance, and response
Improving access to medical products and technology
Structure and operations
AHO is an independent health agency that is run by people for the people, as described on DevelopmentAid.
It is a private limited company by guarantee, incorporated in the UK in 2016, according to Find and update company information.
The organization works to improve the technical capacity of national public health priorities and provides technical cooperation and health service delivery, notes DevelopmentAid and Africa Health Organisation.