The MTRH Rafiki Center for excellence in adolescent and youth health bid farewell to the 2020/2021 cohort of young adults who were ready to transition to the adult module at the AMPATH Centre.
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The USAID-funded AMPATHPlus program recently hosted a large delegation to facilitate better understanding of the AMPATH Medical Record System (AMRS) used by USAID’s AMPATHPlus in providing care for its clients.
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Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the USAID-supported AMPATHPlus program continues to provide care and treatment for people living with HIV in western Kenya.
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Moi University has received a new grant from USAID. USAID 4TheChild program aims to reach over 152,000 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in households affected by HIV and AIDS in Bungoma, Busia, Kakamega, Kisumu and Siaya counties..
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Many AMPATH supporters fondly recall days spent with the children at the Sally Test Child Life Program, the first child life program in Kenya, started by Sarah Ellen Mamlin. She spoke with the program’s director, Ernest Kirui, and shared these updates.
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Dr. Wilson K. Aruasa, CEO of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), led officials from AMPATH and Moi University College of Health Sciences in signing the Human Resources for Health (HRH) MOU with the County Government of Kakamega late last month.
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Accurate, understandable and targeted information is crucial to prevent the spread of the virus and keep people safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the pandemic has affected everyone, some groups and individuals have higher risks and different precautions to keep in mind and practice.
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December 1 is World AIDS Day. Each year this day is designated to remember those who have been lost to AIDS and to recommit to defeating the virus and to supporting those who are living with HIV.
In the midst of a global pandemic, people living with HIV in Kenya face challenges compounded in many ways by the coronavirus.
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Margaret Chepkirui is a peer educator at AMPATH Plus. She helps people living with HIV by using her own experience. Peers are very important people because they empower, through peer education, disclosure and health talks at the pharmacy and modules. They act as a support system, provide group therapy, psychosocial support groups, one-on-one counselling, and most importantly, they are good role models.
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My mum Leah Njeri, who was known as Rachel to most Indiana University/AMPATH folks, was an amazing woman. Everyone probably says that about their mum.
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In August 2019, AMPATH was contracted by USAID to take over HIV care and related activities in Turkana County. Although it is expanding to Turkana with excellent performance in other parts of Kenya, it knows Turkana County is unique and unlike any other.
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Douglas Momanyi, a clinical officer, has been working for the last nine years seeing clients every day. . The AMPATH Comprehensive Care Clinic was once a clinic where only HIV care and testing was provided. Today, the same clinic serves all chronic diseases.
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Several AMPATH researchers presented at Kenya’s national conference on HIV and sexually transmitted infections
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You have to follow a series of bumpy, dusty trails to find Brenda’s home.
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PITC 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.
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The 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.
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