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Suicide is a global public health problem and according to the World Health Organization (WHO), one person dies every 40 seconds as a result of committing suicide.

Most doctors and other experts will tell you that it is important to stay active in retirement. John Lawrence, MD, and his wife Dale took that advice to heart...literally.

When Dr. Lawrence retired, his bags were already packed. The very next day he and Dale left for Kenya to begin a decade of collaboration with Kenyan and North American colleagues to enhance the cardiac care provided through the AMPATH partnership.

Douglas Momanyi, a clinical officer, has been working for the last nine years seeing clients every day. . The AMPATH Comprehensive Care Clinic was once a clinic where only HIV care and testing was provided. Today, the same clinic serves all chronic diseases.

AMPATH’s highly successful HIV prevention, care and treatment program recently expanded to now serve a population of approximately 8 million Kenyans.

Terry Vik, MD, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children, will travel to Kenya later this summer as a Fulbright Scholar. His Fulbright award will enable him to train the first class of pediatric hematology-oncology fellows and conduct research.