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.
Read MoreLike 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.
Read MoreThe HADITHI study seeks to better understand issues surrounding disclosure for adolescents and families in our AMPATH clinics.
Read MorePamella 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.
Read More‘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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MorePITC 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.
Read MoreThis month AMPATH was privileged to host the first Indiana University President to visit the program in person since inception.
Read MoreMaina is a member of the Jiinue Guardians’ GISE program. He borrowed GISE loans which enabled him to purchase supplies for his cobbler business.
Read MoreTo address high rates of maternal and infant mortality in western Kenya, AMPATH is collaborating with the Kenya Ministry of Health (MOH) to support innovative approaches to improve maternal, newborn and child 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreChronic 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.
Read MoreAMPATH 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.
Read MoreChannel 13 sent Producer DeShong Perry, Anchor Andrea Morehead, and Photographer Scott Allen to Eldoret, Kenya to produce a series of stories about the Indiana-Kenya Partnership
Read MoreThose gathered celebrated this new addition to their medical facilities, as this hospital serves as a regional referral and training center for health care providers throughout all of western Kenyan.
Read MoreWhat can Indianapolis youth do to help students in rural areas halfway around the world? Organize a carnival, of course!
Read MoreWe are excited to now complement that focus with a full-time presence in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Sierra Washington has joined our team in Eldoret to lead our efforts on the part of the IU Department of OB/GYN.
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