Between college and graduate school, Peace Corps volunteer Ken Kobe taught at a small secondary school in Port Victoria. Ken made a follow up visit to Kenya after he left the Peace Corps, but his love for Kenya was destined to remain long-distanced. Finally, 35 years later, he returned.
Read MoreAMPATH’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.
Read MoreThis month, AMPATH helped launch a Busia County Universal Health Coverage (UHC) pilot, a partnership between Busia County Government, National Health Insurance Fund, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and AMPATH.
Read MoreThe year since COVID-19 was first confirmed in Kenya has been tough. But, among the many ways we’ve been challenged, there are many examples of our ability to get back up and to adapt. In the face of bad news, we’d like to share some good news from the past year.
Read MoreAMPATH’s surgical team won a $200,000 Discovery Award last month from the Global Surgical Training Challenge to develop and test their proposed “AMPATH Surgical APp (ASAP).”
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreEach 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.
Read MoreWendy Prudhomme-O'Meara, PhD, and Patrick O’Meara moved to Eldoret in January of 2009 so Wendy could conduct research, but as is often the case, the association with AMPATH became a family venture and Patrick has served the partnership in a variety of engineering and innovation roles.
Read MoreAMPATH’s community-based health education program for expectant mothers significantly improved newborn and child health (MNCH) outcomes according to a new research study from AMPATH investigators published in BMJ Global Health.
Read MoreFormer IU Medicine residents reflect on their lifechanging experience in Eldoret, Kenya with AMPATH
Read MoreNew 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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