Women living with HIV are more prone to cervical cancer than their HIV negative counterparts. USAID Dumisha Afya is leading a raft of interventions, not only against HIV, but also cervical cancer.
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For more than a decade, AMPATH partners led by Festus Njuguna, MBChB, MMed, PhD, and Gilbert Olbara, MBChB, MMed, have worked together to build a pathway to optimal childhood cancer care at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) and throughout western Kenya.
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AMPATH partners commemorated World Cancer Day themed “Close the Care Gap" on February 4 with a call to unite voices and take action to improve cancer care. While cancer is the second-leading cause of death globally, 70 percent of cancer deaths occur in low-to middle-income countries such as Kenya.
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The National Cancer Institute of Kenya estimates that nine women die every day from cervical cancer, despite it being preventable through HPV vaccinations and more curable if detected early through screening. Every year the world observes Cervical Cancer Awareness in January to create awareness around vaccination, screening, and treatment.
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Determining the cause of these fevers and identifying ways to improve care in resource limited settings is the research focus for Nate Nessle, DO, during his Fogarty fellowship year at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Kenya. He believes no child with cancer should die from a fever.
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Eli Lilly and Company donated more than $66 million in medication over the last two years related to support of the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) partnership to help people in western Kenya living with cancer, diabetes and mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression.
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So long 2021—what a year! This has been such a challenging year for so many around the world and no one has gone unscathed by the pandemic in one way or another.
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Naftali Busakhala, MBChB, MMed (internal medicine) is a specialist physician and senior lecturer at Moi University, Department of Pharmacology.
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Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital has attained yet another milestone--the roll-out of brachytherapy treatment for cancer patients.
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Available care for cancer patients at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital expanded with the installation of radiotherapy equipment at the Chandaria Cancer and Chronic Diseases Centre.
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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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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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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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Fears of contracting COVID-19 and stay-at-home orders impact everyone, but children being treated for cancer in Kenya now face an unimaginable double burden. AMPATH Oncology’s Burkitt and Lymphoma Program (BLP), working in partnership with Takeda Pharmaceuticals, helps to ease some of that burden for patients and their families through innovative interventions and solutions.
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Inspired by AMPATH’s successful HIV care and control program, Pat Loehrer, MD, saw the possibility of creating a similar revolutionary change in cancer care.
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Terry Vik, MD, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children, will travel to Kenya later this summer as a Fulbright Scholar. His Fulbright award will enable him to train the first class of pediatric hematology-oncology fellows and conduct research.
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In the small town of Webuye near the Uganda border, you won’t find a doctor specializing in cancer. But thanks to a recent training by the AMPATH Oncology team, you will find community leaders empowered to do all they can to improve access to cancer screenings.
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As one of the first graduates of AMPATH’s Nursing Oncology training program, Anne Jebet is passionate about exceptional patient care
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With the continued work of AMPATH workers like Mercy and Elizabeth and the growth of programs like outreach screenings that bring care to the people and bring down the barriers to community health, more women like The Beautiful Ones can lead longer, healthy lives and lift up their families and their communities.
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