A new 4-year grant to Moi University and AMPATH Kenya will enhance AMPATH’s patient-centered primary care by working with local leadership in six counties in western Kenya through training on and use of portable point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS).

Fifty thousand women in Nepal and Kenya will be screened for breast and cervical cancer through a new 3-year AMPATH Global initiative.

Women living with HIV are more prone to cervical cancer than their HIV negative counterparts. USAID Dumisha Afya is leading a raft of interventions, not only against HIV, but also cervical cancer.

For more than a decade, AMPATH partners led by Festus Njuguna, MBChB, MMed, PhD, and Gilbert Olbara, MBChB, MMed, have worked together to build a pathway to optimal childhood cancer care at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) and throughout western Kenya.

AMPATH partners commemorated World Cancer Day themed “Close the Care Gap" on February 4 with a call to unite voices and take action to improve cancer care. While cancer is the second-leading cause of death globally, 70 percent of cancer deaths occur in low-to middle-income countries such as Kenya. 

The National Cancer Institute of Kenya estimates that nine women die every day from cervical cancer, despite it being preventable through HPV vaccinations and more curable if detected early through screening. Every year the world observes Cervical Cancer Awareness in January to create awareness around vaccination, screening, and treatment.