Howell first travelled to visit AMPATH and Kenya as part of the Lilly Connecting Hearts Abroad program in 2016. “I had this mindset that I’m going to start with the people and I'm going to stay invested with the people.”
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AMPATH investigators Dr. Florence Jaguga and Jepchirchir (Chiri) Kiplagat, PhD, received prestigious Fogarty Global Health Fellowships through the Northern/Pacific Global Health (NPGH) Research Training Consortium.
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In Kenya, confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose sharply throughout March and the current number of confirmed cases and test positivity rate are among the highest they have been since the start of the pandemic.
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AMPATH’s Multiple Myeloma Program provides comprehensive myeloma care services. The one-of-a-kind program delivers awareness talks and training of health care providers to improve early-stage disease diagnosis.
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This month, AMPATH helped launch a Busia County Universal Health Coverage (UHC) pilot, a partnership between Busia County Government, National Health Insurance Fund, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and AMPATH.
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The year since COVID-19 was first confirmed in Kenya has been tough. But, among the many ways we’ve been challenged, there are many examples of our ability to get back up and to adapt. In the face of bad news, we’d like to share some good news from the past year.
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AMPATH’s surgical team won a $200,000 Discovery Award last month from the Global Surgical Training Challenge to develop and test their proposed “AMPATH Surgical APp (ASAP).”
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In 2008, Kenya had just one recognized gynecologic oncologist. Dr. Benjamin Elly is on a mission to change this scarcity in specialized care for women with reproductive tract cancers. He was one of the first graduates of the AMPATH-developed fellowship training program in gynecologic oncology, the first program of its kind in East Africa.
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Each January, Kenya and the world mark Cervical Cancer Awareness month to raise awareness about cervical cancer screening, expanding treatment options and access to HPV vaccinations.
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Wendy Prudhomme-O'Meara, PhD, and Patrick O’Meara moved to Eldoret in January of 2009 so Wendy could conduct research, but as is often the case, the association with AMPATH became a family venture and Patrick has served the partnership in a variety of engineering and innovation roles.
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AMPATH’s community-based health education program for expectant mothers significantly improved newborn and child health (MNCH) outcomes according to a new research study from AMPATH investigators published in BMJ Global Health.
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New technology allows people in rural western Kenya to access dermatology screening, triage and linkage to care without the difficulty and expense of travelling to a referral hospital to be examined by a dermatologist in-person.
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Congratulations to the Moi University health sciences students who completed their studies and graduated on December 10.
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Since the advent of the AMPATH partnership, medical education leaders in both Kenya and North America focused on a two-way exchange of trainees to nurture the next generation of global health leaders.
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Accurate, understandable and targeted information is crucial to prevent the spread of the virus and keep people safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the pandemic has affected everyone, some groups and individuals have higher risks and different precautions to keep in mind and practice.
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December 1 is World AIDS Day. Each year this day is designated to remember those who have been lost to AIDS and to recommit to defeating the virus and to supporting those who are living with HIV.
In the midst of a global pandemic, people living with HIV in Kenya face challenges compounded in many ways by the coronavirus.
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Margaret Chepkirui is a peer educator at AMPATH Plus. She helps people living with HIV by using her own experience. Peers are very important people because they empower, through peer education, disclosure and health talks at the pharmacy and modules. They act as a support system, provide group therapy, psychosocial support groups, one-on-one counselling, and most importantly, they are good role models.
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COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Kenya. Both the number of people testing positive and the test positivity rate increased over the last several weeks. Local government leaders, medical staff and trainees have been among those testing positive.
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Michael Scanlon, MPH, joined AMPATH in September as the assistant director of research, but his involvement with AMPATH goes back for almost a decade.
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Physicians from AMPATH’s North American consortium member schools eagerly responded to a request from faculty members at Moi University to present a series of lectures about the clinical care of COVID-19 patients for health care workers at Moi University and MTRH.
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