IU-Kenya Partnership and AMPATH
TRAINING FUTURE LEADERS AND FIGHTING THE HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC
Since 1989, Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya have worked together to develop leaders in health care for both the U.S. and Africa. In 2001, in the face of the deadliest pandemic in human history, IU and Moi responded by creating one of Africa’s largest, most comprehensive and effective HIV/AIDS control systems.
AMPATH
The IU-Kenya Partnership responded to the HIV/AIDS crisis by creating the Academic Model for Prevention of Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH), which treats over 40,000 HIV-positive patients at 19 sites in both urban and rural Kenya.
AMPATH also:
- ~ Protects Babies by blocking mother-to-child transmission of HIV at birth.
- ~ Prevents HIV/AIDS through outreach to encourage safe practices, prevent the spread of the disease, and confront the deadly effects of HIV/AIDS stigma.
- ~ Fights Hunger through the HAART and Harvest Initiative. With high-production farms and demonstration farms that teach subsistence farmers to get the most out of their crops and livestock, we provide food assistance to 30,000 people per month.
- ~ Builds Self-Sufficiency through the Family Preservation Initiative, which provides skills training, small business loans, a fair-trade crafts workshop and an agricultural co-operative.
- ~ Helps Orphans by providing school clothing and food to the many Kenyan children orphaned by AIDS.
PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE CARE
Even as we expand our HIV/AIDS care, we are working to build capacity to care for mothers and babies, treat cancer patients and insure safe water for the areas we serve.
TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS
Over 500 Kenyans and Americans have participated in the academic medical exchange between Moi and dozens of Kenyan medical students continue their training through Indiana-generated tuition scholarships.
WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT THE IU-KENYA PARTNERSHIP
This partnership "is what transformational development is all about."
~ Ambassador Randall Tobias, former Eli Lilly CEO and now USAID administrator, at his confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee
“The people working on this program are public health heroes. They are doing things that many people thought could never be done, and it is going to have a huge multiplier effect.”
~ Dr. Tim Evans, former director of health equity for the Rockefeller Foundation
“Much more accurately described as an Academic MIRACLE in response to AIDS.”
~ Michael E. Ranneberger, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya
To learn more, visit: www.iukenya.org
