Leading with Care
The pediatric HIV clinic at the AMPATH Centre at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) recently celebrated the impressive viral suppression rate of 98.6%, surpassing the UNAIDS target of 95%.
Loice Sitienei, MBChB, MMed, and Matt Johnson, MD, are growing the long-standing AMPATH radiology collaboration with new education and care efforts.
Each month the Sally Test Child Life Program at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kenya helps more than 4,500 children and their families cope with their mental, emotional and social needs as they face hospitalization and medical procedures.
Fewer than one third of people newly diagnosed with epilepsy in western Kenya return for their follow-up appointment.
Using the theme “Educate, Advocate, Act Now” the MTRH Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee and AMPATH AMR Project team are shining a spotlight on the urgent need to combat AMR--a silent but deadly threat to global health.
Fifty thousand women in Nepal and Kenya will be screened for breast and cervical cancer through a new 3-year AMPATH Global initiative.
This year, members of the AMPATH Consortium hosted more than thirty Moi University medical, nursing and health sciences students for clinical rotations in the U.S., Canada and Sweden.
Nurses from around the world gathered for the first AMPATH Global Nursing Conference with the theme of “Advancing the Role of Nurses in Global Health.”
A team from Indiana University School of Medicine spent a week in March at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital holding a surgery teaching “camp” to begin the process of training the Kenyan team in ERCP* and other advanced and therapeutic endoscopy procedures.