Last month AMPATH took a big step toward a vision of making access to quality health care available for all. AMPATH teams started a pilot project going door-to-door in Turbo Sub-County, immediately northwest of Eldoret, to facilitate enrollment in an affordable national health insurance product to families, especially those with informal or no employment.
Read MoreIn 2013, a partnership began between Dow Agrosciences/Corteva and AMPATH. Since then, employees have been passionately engaged in providing aid in the area of food insecurity in Kenya. Erica Duffy from Corteva Agriscience is blogging from Eldoret for 6 months
Read MoreThe group started in late 2014 and aimed to improve the living standards of farmers in the community and eradicate illiteracy though empowerment.
Read MorePretonila visited Busia County Referral Hospital in a border town in western Kenya to be treated for a minor ailment. On this particular day, she would not be paying for any health services at the hospital.
Read MoreHave you ever heard the expression "it takes a village to raise a child"?
Read MoreMartha coughs as she kneels on the dirt floor to stoke the wood in the open fire pit of her inadequately ventilated one-room cooking hut.
Read MoreIn an effort to help improve income security in western Kenya, AMPATH developed a community-run microfinance model called Group Integrated Savings for Empowerment (GISE).
Read MoreAMPATH discovered early on that providing anti-retroviral drugs did not fully solve many of the HIV patients' problems. Often times patients come to the clinic malnourished or not knowing when their next meal will be; therefore, one important component of AMPATH is food and income security.
Read MoreAssisting 200 million-plus people in Africa who are food insecure is part of Dow AgroSciences’ comprehensive food insecurity initiative.
Read MoreThere are 239 million food insecure people in sub-Saharan Africa. To assure that the school children are fed and retained in school, the government of Kenya supports feeding programs in schools that are in the arid and semi-arid regions of the country.
Read MoreIn several areas, including Sinoko, AMPATH has also begun a pilot project called BIGPIC (Bridging Income Generation through Provision of Incentives for Care) to bundle diabetes and hypertension screening and monitoring with the bi-weekly GISE meetings.
Read MoreRarely do we think about scarcity or access to drinking water. Today, however, 1 in 8 people worldwide don’t have access to safe drinking water and 37% of those people are in sub Saharan Africa.
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 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 MoreMaina is a member of the Jiinue Guardians’ GISE program. He borrowed GISE loans which enabled him to purchase supplies for his cobbler business.
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