The Ministry of Health, through Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) and AMPATH, tested the Primary-Health Integrated Care for Four Chronic Diseases (PIC4C) model that integrates early diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, diabetes, breast and cervical cancer into the primary care level supported by a robust and seamless referral system.
Read MoreEli Lilly and Company donated more than $66 million in medication over the last two years related to support of the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) partnership to help people in western Kenya living with cancer, diabetes and mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression.
Read MoreIU School of Medicine student Mary Ann Etling worked with pediatricians Dr. Eren Oyungu from Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya and Dr. Megan McHenry from IU School of Medicine as well as Moi medical student, Michael Musili, to develop an interactive map of organizations and resources for children with disabilities in Kenya.
Read MoreMost 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.
Read MoreDouglas 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.
Read MoreAMPATH colleagues Laura Ruhl, MD, MPH, and Matt Turissini, MD, took very different paths to Kenya.
Along the way those paths converged to create a partnership that thrives on working to create an accessible health system in western Kenya while raising their young daughters to be global citizens.
Read MoreAMPATH is working to improve the system for identifying and treating mental illness in Kenya. Jakob Simmank, a reporter from the German publication Zeit Online, recently travelled through western Kenya to report on efforts to address this challenge, including AMPATH’s work to remove the stigma of mental health through education.
Read MoreThe top global academic journal on HIV published a special issue on NCDs and HIV care spotlighting AMPATH’s global contributions to care and research.
Read MoreQ&A with Dr. Jeremiah Laktabai, co-leader of AMPATH’s population health department and chair of family medicine at Moi University
Read MoreIn a country with a widely dispersed population, teleconferencing technology is improving access to education and support for health workers in Kenya.
Read MoreAMPATH’s work is at the center of a new global initiative called Access Accelerated, a partnership working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal to reduce premature deaths from NCDs by one-third by 2030.
Read MoreMartha coughs as she kneels on the dirt floor to stoke the wood in the open fire pit of her inadequately ventilated one-room cooking hut.
Read MoreAt age 3, I was admitted to the local hospital and after staying for almost a month without anybody having any idea of why I was having problems, someone finally requested a glucose test and I was diagnosed with diabetes.
Read MoreAs I was walking through the new Chandaria Cancer and Chronic Diseases Centre at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret, Kenya, I was reminded of the early days of diabetes mellitus (DM) care in western Kenya.
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There are 4 ward teams at the pediatric hospital at Moi University: Tumaini ('Hope' in Swahili) 1 and 2 and Upendo ('Love' in Swahili) 1 and 2.
This summer the chemotherapy tent outside the AMPATH Centre was taken down and the doors of the Chandaria Cancer and Chronic Disease Centre were open for business.
Read MoreAccording to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Mental Health Atlas, nearly one in 10 people have a mental health disorder worldwide; however, only one percent of the global health workforce is working in mental health.
Read More"Would you prefer the happiness of scratching a mosquito bite over the happiness of not having a mosquito bite in the first place?"
Read MoreJune 21, 2013, marked a momentous occasion as delegates and leaders from the Kenyan Ministery of Health gathered with colleagues from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and AMPATH Consortium partners, Duke and Indiana Universities, to celebrate the opening of a ten bed cardiac care unit in Western Kenya.
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