Elizabeth Kabuthi is a medical social worker and Certified Child Life Specialist working in Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Shoe for Africa Children’s Hospital, as the program coordinator of the vibrant Sally Test Child Life Program in partnership with AMPATH.
Read MoreIn the heart of Kondele slums in Kisumu County, Michel Maria Omondi’s story speaks volumes about resilience, empowerment, and the transformative potential of inclusion.
Read MoreSarah Ellen Mamlin is a beloved member of the AMPATH family. For more than three decades, she has helped AMPATH people and programs grow.
Read MoreLeaders from USAID AMPATH Uzima share their thoughts on International Women’s Day 2024.
Read MoreOver two decades, Tecla Chepkoech Kirwa’s involvement and support for AMPATH have grown to include many roles.
Read MoreEvelyn (Eve)) Too is a clinician and administrator of the AMPATH HIV Clinic at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH). She recently spent two weeks at Indiana University focused on learning more about the care of people living with HIV as they age and shared thoughts
Read MoreEver since she was a little girl, Dr. Brenda Chepkoech seemed destined to come to Indiana for medical training. This summer she completed rotations in nephrology, pulmonology and in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and now hopes to be part of the team that is slated to set up a PICU in Eldoret in the near future.
Read MoreAlexandra (A.J.) Mata, MD, just arrived in Eldoret to serve as the reproductive health team leader. Her role as AMPATH’s team leader is the final component of a two-year Global Women's Health and Equity Fellowship with the University of Toronto.
Read MoreDinah Chelagat, PhD, dean of the Moi University School of Nursing and Midwifery, reflects on the impact of nurses, the challenges they face and the AMPATH partnership.
Read MoreIn the heart of Kisumu, Kenya, lives a young woman named Yvonne Ogolla who has always had a passion for helping her community. Yvonne grew up in an informal settlement in Kisumu City where poverty, lack of education and teenage pregnancy are prevalent.
Read MoreDr. Edith Apondi is the Deputy Chief of Party for USAID Dumisha Afya. She began working with people living with HIV after completing her internship in 2003 and previously served as a technical advisor for pediatric and adolescent care programs for USAID AMPATHPlus. She is a consultant pediatrician working with MTRH.
Read MoreAlthough Kenyan surgical registrar (resident) Dr. Beryl Munda often found herself completely lost in the Indianapolis campus hospitals, her AMPATH educational exchange experience convinced her she was in exactly the right place professionally.
Read MoreA former beneficiary of the PEPFAR/USAID-funded Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) program for adolescent girls and young women joins the public service as an assistant chief.
Read MoreThe AMPATH Qualitative Research Core (AQRC) offers investigators a resource for qualitative and mixed method research. Violet Naanyu, PhD, is the founder and director of the AQRC which started in 2018 as a resource for investigators.
Read MoreAs Jepchirchir (Chiri) Kiplagat comes to the official end of her Fogarty Fellowship, she looks back on a year of tremendous professional growth highlighted by being first author on a publication in The Lancet HIV about improving care for people aging with HIV.
Read MoreDr. Jaguga received a prestigious Fogarty Global Health Fellowship through the Northern/Pacific Global Health (NPGH) Research Training Consortium. Her year-long research project trains peer counselors to deliver a brief substance use intervention for youth living with HIV and then assesses how feasible and acceptable the intervention is.
Read MoreIn honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Dr. Edith Kwobah, head of the department of mental health at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), shared her inspiration and passion for expanding mental health services throughout western Kenya.
Read MoreMargaret 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.
Read MoreIU House is home for AMPATH Consortium faculty members, learners and guests whether they are in Eldoret for a few days, several weeks or many years. Dunya Karama makes sure every guest feels welcome and safe and is the Kenyan “mama” to all who enter.
Read MoreKara Wools-Kaloustian, MD, MS, has been named co-director of research (North America) for the AMPATH partnership and director of research for the Indiana University Center for Global Health (IUCGH). In her new role, Wools-Kaloustian collaborates with Professor Winstone Nyandiko, AMPATH’s co-director of research (Kenya).
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