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Women's Health
GIVING WOMEN AND MOTHERS ACCESS TO THE CARE THEY NEED.
Women remain the backbone of the home in Kenya and yet they are often valued the least. Nearly half of Kenyan women who are pregnant are under the age of 19. So many deliver at home without skilled birth attendants and suffer birth trauma, hemorrhage, infection, and maternal or neonatal death. And many lack supportive communities as they become parents.
AMPATH and our partners are working not just to provide care, but also to remove the obstacles that get in the way of it. We’ve built state-of-the-art maternal health facilities and helped people get to them. We’ve given women access to contraception and education to improve their health and their families' livelihood. And most importantly, we’ve helped communities learn how to support themselves and each other for long-term, sustainable success.
98%
Of mothers enrolled in AMPATH’s Chamas for Change deliver their babies in a health facility
2,000+
Young mothers enrolled in parenting programs
4.2%
Mother-to-child HIV transmission rate, lowered from 35%
YOUR GIFT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
$25
A Pap smear for 5 women to screen for cervical cancer
$50
Allows an HIV-positive pregnant woman to deliver her baby in a hospital
$100
Treatment for 5 women before cervical abnormalities become cancer
$300
Surgery to cure early stage cervical cancer
LATEST NEWS ON WOMEN'S HEALTH
Trans Nzoia County has employed a concerted effort to improve early antenatal care attendance within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy to improve maternal and child health outcomes.
Chamas for Change is a community-based peer support model employing group microfinance and education programs to improve maternal and women’s health. The program addresses the inequities that drive maternal and infant mortality in Kenya.
Kenya’s first Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) fellowship developed through the AMPATH partnership is changing the outcomes and expectations for pregnant women and babies facing serious medical challenges in western Kenya.
In a powerful testament to relentless efforts in combatting HIV transmission from mother to child, the annual HIV-exposed Infants (HEI) Graduation Ceremony was hosted at both Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and Kitale County Referral Hospital in September.
As AMPATH’s newest reproductive health team leader, Anca Matei, MD, FRCSC, provides obstetric and gynecologic clinical care and works with Kenyan colleagues to reduce the inequities in care that women face.
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.