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.
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 MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThe 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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