Inspired by AMPATH’s successful HIV care and control program, Pat Loehrer, MD, saw the possibility of creating a similar revolutionary change in cancer care.
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A team from AMPATH Consortium member University of Toronto, Moi University and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital created a video to highlight the unique Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship now available.
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Many Nandi homes, like other traditional Kenyan communities, cook using biomass fuels like wood and agricultural wastes in inadequately ventilated kitchens. The Nandi-improved kitchens were designed jointly with women from Nandi and with the help of the Purdue University Global Air Quality Trekkers (GAQT) engineering team.
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Each year Kenyan and North American AMPATH partners and leaders gather to discuss recent advances, future plans and enhancing collaborations. This year’s summit was hosted by Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.
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IU House is home for AMPATH Consortium faculty members, learners and guests whether they are in Eldoret for a few days, several weeks or many years. Dunya Karama makes sure every guest feels welcome and safe and is the Kenyan “mama” to all who enter.
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Kenyan and North American faculty members and their colleagues involved with the AMPATH Research Network met last month in Eldoret to work collaboratively to set the partnership’s strategic research vision for the future.
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More than 340 medical and dental students from Moi University have completed elective clinical rotations at North American academic health centers that are part of the AMPATH Consortium. This year, Brown University, Duke University, Indiana University, Mount Sinai and the University of Toronto welcome 17 learners:
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Kara Wools-Kaloustian, MD, MS, has been named co-director of research (North America) for the AMPATH partnership and director of research for the Indiana University Center for Global Health (IUCGH). In her new role, Wools-Kaloustian collaborates with Professor Winstone Nyandiko, AMPATH’s co-director of research (Kenya).
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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Riley Mother and Baby Hospital (RMBH) at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret, Kenya.
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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.
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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.
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Four North American physicians join the AMPATH partnership as new team leaders this summer and will work with their Kenyan counterparts at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) and Moi University School of Medicine to lead in the areas of medicine, pediatrics, surgery and reproductive health.
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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.
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AMPATH’s highly successful HIV prevention, care and treatment program recently expanded to now serve a population of approximately 8 million Kenyans.
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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.
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The AMPATH Maternal, Newborn and Child Health team is implementing three interventions that seek to promote peer support and accountability: community clubs for pregnant and breastfeeding women (chamas), integrated group care for pregnant women and infants (Afya Jamii), and smartphones for use by Community Health Volunteers.
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If you ask Grace Wandia, MD, what impressed her most about her two-month rotation at Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis, she will tell you about the environment. She was impressed by the environment inside the hospital which she found collegial, transparent and supportive. She was also impressed by the environment outside the hospital, which she found really, really cold.
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Kenya’s First Lady, Margaret Kenyatta, launched the West Pokot Business Plan for the elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission (eMTCT) of HIV earlier this month. The business plan is a roadmap that outlines how the county will dedicate more resources for eMTCT by 2021. AMPATH, with support from USAID, implements HIV care and treatment in West Pokot County, including eMTCT, and played a significant role in creating the roadmap.
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The AMPATH partnership honors the memory and generous spirit of Eleanor (Ellie) Thurston who passed away on April 18 at the age of 89. Mrs. Thurston gave her initial gift to the Indiana University-Kenya partnership (now AMPATH) in 1999 to honor her husband, Max. . She wanted to make it possible for others who came from financially limited means to have the same sort of opportunity that Max had been given.
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When Joe Mamlin, MD, retired from Wishard Memorial Hospital in 2000, he and Sarah Ellen Mamlin made a one-year commitment to return to the IU-Kenya partnership in Eldoret that they had helped to establish a decade earlier. One year turned into 20, the IU-Kenya partnership became AMPATH, and this month Joe and Sarah Ellen returned to Indiana. Their departure from Kenya was commemorated with several celebrations to recognize their two decades of service.
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