The revolving fund pharmacy (RFP) model was initiated with the hope of improving access to essential medicines in rural health facilities. The RFPs provide back-up supplies of crucial medications in the event that pharmacies in government health facilities stock out of them.
Read MorePITC 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.
Read MoreThis month AMPATH was privileged to host the first Indiana University President to visit the program in person since inception.
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.
Read MoreTo address high rates of maternal and infant mortality in western Kenya, AMPATH is collaborating with the Kenya Ministry of Health (MOH) to support innovative approaches to improve maternal, newborn and child health.
Read More"Would you prefer the happiness of scratching a mosquito bite over the happiness of not having a mosquito bite in the first place?"
Read MoreJune 21, 2013, marked a momentous occasion as delegates and leaders from the Kenyan Ministery of Health gathered with colleagues from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and AMPATH Consortium partners, Duke and Indiana Universities, to celebrate the opening of a ten bed cardiac care unit in Western Kenya.
Read MoreThe AMPATH Family Preservation Initiative empowers patients economically through various agri-business interventions. The patients often need capital to start entrepreneurial projects as well as a way to save their money. GISE is one of the interventions that acts as a financing model in the agri-business interventions because most of the people who live in informal rural and urban areas find it very difficult to access financial services.
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