Fadwa Ahmed Affara
Aden Protectorate 1942 – Edinburgh, Scotland 2025
Fadwa Affara, our cherished friend and Co-Chair of the Africa Action Network for Nurses, passed away peacefully in her care home in Scotland, surrounded by her loving family. Fadwa was a global nurse leader and an extraordinary role model personally and …




AAN Projects
The Covid Africa Action Network for Nurses and Nurse-Midwives (AAN) funds Nurse and Nurse-Midwife-led projects to locally produce and distribute evidence-based re-usable face masks. Click on the link below to learn more about AAN’s projects.
AAN Guidelines
AAN, in association with Dr Janine Jagger and numerous Nurses, Nurse-Midwives and other Healthcare professionals, has developed guidelines for the local production of evidence based re-usable face masks in support of Nurses and Nurse-Midwives gaining agency over the supply of vital PPE they require in order to deliver the vital care everyone else requires.
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