AMPATH is working to improve the system for identifying and treating mental illness in Kenya. Jakob Simmank, a reporter from the German publication Zeit Online, recently travelled through western Kenya to report on efforts to address this challenge, including AMPATH’s work to remove the stigma of mental health through education.
Read MoreKyle Carpenter received a 2018 Fulbright Scholar Award to join AMPATH’s surgery team and develop western Kenya’s first registry of burn patients.
Read MoreA team from the Purdue University College of Pharmacy worked with AMPATH consortium members and MTRH staff to develop a wound compression kit that treats skin conditions and infections, particularly Kaposi Sarcoma, a debilitating infection often linked with HIV.
Read MoreIn the small town of Webuye near the Uganda border, you won’t find a doctor specializing in cancer. But thanks to a recent training by the AMPATH Oncology team, you will find community leaders empowered to do all they can to improve access to cancer screenings.
Read MoreJennifer grew up in the Nyelele community, a lush and rural area of Turbo sub-county. Growing up, she knew many women who died in childbirth, and the losses motivated her to become a community health volunteer.
Read MoreSalim Bakari and Brian Kwendo are rising young AMPATH researchers who are transforming HIV care using mobile technology. As AMPATH peer mentors and young pediatric researchers, they were inspired to develop a mobile app called HIVFactSheet for youth in sub-Saharan Africa after witnessing the need.
Read MoreSeveral AMPATH researchers presented at Kenya’s national conference on HIV and sexually transmitted infections
Read MoreThe top global academic journal on HIV published a special issue on NCDs and HIV care spotlighting AMPATH’s global contributions to care and research.
Read MoreAs one of the first graduates of AMPATH’s Nursing Oncology training program, Anne Jebet is passionate about exceptional patient care
Read MoreAfter a few weeks into my Slemenda summer, I eventually joined up with Dr. Laura Ruhl who founded a program called Chama cha MamaToto. These are peer support groups for pregnant and breastfeeding women with the goal of decreasing barriers to health and maternal stress.
Read MoreIn 2013, a partnership began between Dow Agrosciences/Corteva and AMPATH. Since then, employees have been passionately engaged in providing aid in the area of food insecurity in Kenya. Erica Duffy from Corteva Agriscience is blogging from Eldoret for 6 months
Read MoreAarti Thakkar from Duke University and Helen Wu Li from Indiana University will be conducting global health research with AMPATH as Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellows
Read MoreAfter numerous hours on planes and at least 10 different security checks involving me pulling out my otoscope and demonstrating its function to the security officers, I have arrived back in the United States.
Read MoreAMPATH recently welcomed two new members to the AMPATH consortium made up of North American universities and medical centers.
Read MoreQ&A with Dr. Jeremiah Laktabai, co-leader of AMPATH’s population health department and chair of family medicine at Moi University
Read MoreSixteen MTRH doctors participated in the first Advanced Trauma Life Support course offered in Eldoret Kenya for training on time-critical interventions in emergency situations.
Read MoreWith our first two weeks in Eldoret being devoted to learning more about AMPATH, the last four weeks thus far have been focused more on individual projects. During this time, I have had the opportunity to become more acquainted with AMPATH Surgery and work with surgery team lead Dr. Connie Keung on several different surgery-related projects.
Read MoreWow, it has already been a month in Kenya and there has been a lot going on for us Slemenda Scholars and AMPATH.
Read MoreAs I sit down to write my the first installment of my “blog” detailing my two months here in Kenya, I realize I am having a very hard time conceptualizing the passage of time.
Read MoreSitting 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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