Rarely do we think about scarcity or access to drinking water. Today, however, 1 in 8 people worldwide don’t have access to safe drinking water and 37% of those people are in sub Saharan Africa.
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Almost everyone can understand the stress of final exam week. Now imagine having the additional stress of paying off all school fees before being allowed to take your exams. Kenyan medical students cannot sit for their final exams unless they have a receipt on their desk showing all school fees have been paid.
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Like so many maladies in developing countries, the focus cannot simply be on the disease. Nutrition is critical when a full stomach is required to take medications.
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The HADITHI study seeks to better understand issues surrounding disclosure for adolescents and families in our AMPATH clinics.
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Pamella later joined a GISE group where she has always been punctual to attend meetings and has a good repayment history. The loans from GISE enabled her sustain inventory for her business.
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‘Debunking the myths’ was the theme for this year’s World Cancer Day festivities on February 4. Cancer is not witchcraft. Nor is it contagious. Rather, it is a treatable disease with early detection.
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The revolving fund pharmacy (RFP) model was initiated with the hope of improving access to essential medicines in rural health facilities. The RFPs provide back-up supplies of crucial medications in the event that pharmacies in government health facilities stock out of them.
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PITC is the entry point to the HIV/AIDS care program at AMPATH and has a goal that 80% of Kenyans served by AMPATH will know their HIV status. Touched by Mercy’s experience, the PITC department headed by Margret Wandabwa sought ways in which this experience could have been prevented.
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This month AMPATH was privileged to host the first Indiana University President to visit the program in person since inception.
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June 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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The AMPATH Family Preservation Initiative empowers patients economically through various agri-business interventions. The patients often need capital to start entrepreneurial projects as well as a way to save their money. GISE is one of the interventions that acts as a financing model in the agri-business interventions because most of the people who live in informal rural and urban areas find it very difficult to access financial services.
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The AMPATH journey has been one of continually drilling down closer to the source of the HIV pandemic rather than simply staffing clinics. FLTR (Find, Link, Train, Retain) is a coming together of many of the most innovative pieces of AMPATH’s HIV program.
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Chronic non-communicable cardiovascular disease is rapidly becoming one of the major causes of death and disability in the developing world. At present, there are no adult Kenyan cardiologists in western Kenya and limited technology to take care of the myriad of patients presenting at MTRH.
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AMPATH and Ministry of Health launch a network of Community Health workers to identify major health needs, educate, and manage some conditions at the household level and refer patients to health facilities when necessary.
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In 2008, the Indiana University Center for Bioethics was awarded a $940,000 grant from the Fogarty International Center (NIH) to establish a new research ethics training partnership with colleagues at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.
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The AMPATH Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Program continues to expand and meet the needs of children affected by HIV in western Kenya.
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