Wow, it has already been a month in Kenya and there has been a lot going on for us Slemenda Scholars and AMPATH.
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Sitting on the plane flying from Istanbul to Nairobi, I made sure to document some of the thoughts I had about what this experience—of being a Slemenda Scholar, of living in Sub-Saharan Africa for a summer, of understanding AMPATH would be like.
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AMPATH’s work is at the center of a new global initiative called Access Accelerated, a partnership working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal to reduce premature deaths from NCDs by one-third by 2030.
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The Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin recently joined AMPATH as the newest Consortium member.
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For a long time, I have been very, very interested (read: obsessed) with the concept of sustainability, especially in the context of global health.
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Over the past week, I have been trying unsuccessfully to describe concisely what this summer has meant to me.
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With the current nurses' strike, public hospitals are operating at sub-optimal levels, which has led to changes in our schedules.
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Here I am. Fighting, working, running, writing, practicing gratitude.
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In 2004, when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK, Gordon Brown gave a speech describing how the world was failing poor families – and poor babies in particular.
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The HADITHI study seeks to better understand issues surrounding disclosure for adolescents and families in our AMPATH clinics.
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To 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.
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June 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.
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