Afya Kenya Foundation is a registered trust organization based in Nairobi, Kenya that seeks to provide quality health care to the rural and urban poor through free community health outreach camps. It was set up by student doctors who saw the need for such an initiative in the course of their apprenticeship.
Policy makers have since the inception of our promising State sought the answer to the question “Is the economy of a country dependent on the state of health or is the state of health in a country dependent on the economy?” Many answers have been put forward by different philosophers but so far, eradication of disease is still but an idea in the minds of the Founding Fathers.
After several reviews of these answers, we at Afya Kenya Foundation are of the opinion that perhaps it is the question that should be reviewed and not the answers. It has become evident that the economy and the health of a nation are inseparable and cannot be considered in isolation. The two go hand in hand; the economy directly affects the state of health and vice versa. We at Afya Kenya Foundation fully appreciate the importance of health in shaping the destiny of a nation and have made it our mission to provide quality health care for all in Kenya.
