Counterfeit drugs are a growing problem globally, but according to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, counterfeit drugs are a multi-billion dollar business in Africa and account for 30% of the pharmaceutical market in Kenya specifically.
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Beautifying surrounds rather than drab gloomy hospital walls is a growing trend in western countries. And not without reason, there is research that shows brightening hospital atmosphere with artwork can speed patient healing while gloomy walls can actually cause distress.
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The phrase ‘it takes a village’ may seem cliché, but there couldn’t be a more accurate phrase to describe AMPATH’s approach to improving mother-baby health in a country where maternal and infant death still remains a real threat.
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There are 239 million food insecure people in sub-Saharan Africa. To assure that the school children are fed and retained in school, the government of Kenya supports feeding programs in schools that are in the arid and semi-arid regions of the country.
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In several areas, including Sinoko, AMPATH has also begun a pilot project called BIGPIC (Bridging Income Generation through Provision of Incentives for Care) to bundle diabetes and hypertension screening and monitoring with the bi-weekly GISE meetings.
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The AMPATH leaders came along on this home-based testing visit because Mr. and Mrs. Tenai would soon become the one-millionth person and one-millionth-and-one person respectively to be reached since the inception of the AMPATH perpetual home-based counseling and testing program.
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Rarely do we think about scarcity or access to drinking water. Today, however, 1 in 8 people worldwide don’t have access to safe drinking water and 37% of those people are in sub Saharan Africa.
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Almost everyone can understand the stress of final exam week. Now imagine having the additional stress of paying off all school fees before being allowed to take your exams. Kenyan medical students cannot sit for their final exams unless they have a receipt on their desk showing all school fees have been paid.
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Like so many maladies in developing countries, the focus cannot simply be on the disease. Nutrition is critical when a full stomach is required to take medications.
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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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Pamella later joined a GISE group where she has always been punctual to attend meetings and has a good repayment history. The loans from GISE enabled her sustain inventory for her business.
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‘Debunking the myths’ was the theme for this year’s World Cancer Day festivities on February 4. Cancer is not witchcraft. Nor is it contagious. Rather, it is a treatable disease with early detection.
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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.
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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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This month AMPATH was privileged to host the first Indiana University President to visit the program in person since inception.
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Maina is a member of the Jiinue Guardians’ GISE program. He borrowed GISE loans which enabled him to purchase supplies for his cobbler business.
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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.
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?"
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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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The 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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