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The Africa Consortium for Quality Improvement Research (ACQUIRE) in Frontline Healthcare
Excellence In Frontline Healthcare

We train frontline health teams across Africa to lead quality improvement and patient safety.

Our story

How ACQUIRE began — and why it starts at the frontline.

ACQUIRE was founded by two teaching hospitals — AIC Kijabe Hospital and Kenyatta National Hospital — to drive quality improvement research led by frontline healthcare workers. Hear how it began.

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I am a QI-PS Champion

In their own words: the people improving care.

Every poster is made by a champion — their photo, their role, what keeps them pushing on the system.

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QI-PS Champion Stories

Short reads from QI champions.

Three-minute stories from the ward: one problem, one change idea, what the data showed.

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A champion story every Friday

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The 2025 Forum

Co-producing safer care across Africa

Eight connected conversations on quality improvement and patient safety.

“Healthcare reaches its full potential when improvement becomes everyone’s everyday work.”

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Course intakes, forum dates, graduation and the annual report.

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Why the frontline

The frontline health worker knows what’s really happening with the patient.

Frontline QI happens when peers work in cross-disciplinary teams, look at real-time data, test change ideas and build feedback loops — bottom-up, not top-down.

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1 in 10patients is harmed in health care
3M+deaths a year from unsafe care
50%+of that harm is preventable
Source: WHO patient safety fact sheet
About ACQUIRE

Since 2020, ACQUIRE has conducted implementation research to guide healthcare workers in enhancing the quality of care across the African continent.

Our Big Idea

ACQUIRE seeks to build learning health systems that ensure high-quality healthcare for everyone in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Our Vision

Healthcare systems are characterized by continuous learning that results in quality care for all.

Our Mission

To strengthen the capacity of frontline healthcare workers, institutions, and governments to apply rigorously-performed quality improvement research to everyday practice in sub-Saharan Africa.