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The International Commission for the Relief of Suffering & Starvation (ICROSS), KenyaICROSS has 26 years experience of implementing health programs in East Africa and has provided public health consultancies to bilateral and multi lateral donors including the British Government, European Union, Indian Government and International organizations. ICROSS is funded primarily by bilateral and multi lateral donors including the Irish, Japanese, Canadian Governments as well as the Global Fund. It works closely with the Kenyan Government and is a member of 16 International NGO alliances, networks and NGO bodies. ICROSS has contributed significantly to international medical research. The purpose of ICROSS research programs is to improve the quality of life in Africa. The insights we have attained have been widely disseminated internationally, both through medical and scientific journals, international conferences, lobby groups like SODIS and the incorporation of ideas into policies. ICROSS research programmes are targeted specifically at problems faced by people living in poverty and seeks to answer pressing questions concerning patterns of disease and causes of death. Published research includes diarrhoeal infections, female circumcision, commercial sex work and trachoma blindness. We also believe that any research conducted in Africa must have immediate and direct practical benefit to the people themselves. It is our policy not to explore any research question unless there is a practical benefit that can come from the answer. We respect the people and communities that we work with, we have strict ethical criteria including informed consent and all our research is designed openly and transparently with the communities themselves. .Our work is designed and implemented by experienced professionals with a wide range of specialist skills ranging from medical demographers, bio statisticians, clinicians, health workers, anthropologists as well as child psychologists, trauma experts and microbiologists.
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