Anne-Beatrice Kihara
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Anne-Beatrice Kihara | |
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| Alma mater | University of Nairobi |
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| Institutions | International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics |
Anne-Beatrice Kihara is a Kenyan physician and professor who is President of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. She has dedicated her career to improving the physical health of women across Africa.
Kihara grew up in Kenya.[1] She became interested in medicine whilst helping her father, Dickson Kihara Nyaga, who was a public health officer.[2] She was a medical student at the University of Nairobi, where she had an unplanned pregnancy.[2] At the age of twenty one she was forced to repeat the year, and eventually had to complete her medical degree as a single mother.[citation needed] After completing her medical degree, she worked as a gynaecologist in Nairobi. She established maternity facilities and a village hospital.[3] She worked to empower local young women by providing them access to work.[1]
