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Indiana-Kenya Partnership

In 1989, Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University School of
Medicine agreed to join together to develop leaders in health care for both
the U.S. and Africa. That mission inspired this team to provide invaluable
training to future generations of health care providers on both continents.

At the turn of the century, 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.

The Indiana-Kenya Partnership responded to the resulting program called AMPATH: the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare. AMPATH treats over 100,000 HIV-positive patients at 23 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.
  
• Goes door-to-door throughout western Kenya testing for HIV, screening for tuberculosis and delivering treated bed nets to prevent malaria.
• Fights hunger through providing food security programs. With high-production farms and demonstration farms, we provide food assistance to up to 30,000 people per month.
  
• Builds self-sufficiency through offering income security programs including skills training, micro-financing, a fair-trade-certified crafts workshop and an agricultural co-operative.
• Helps orphans and vulnerable children by providing school fees, clothing and food to thousands of Kenyan children orphaned by AIDS.

Please check the AMPATH section to learn more about these initiatives.

Even as we expand our HIV/AIDS care, we are building capacity to care for
mothers and babies, treat cancer patients, perform surgeries and insure safe
water for the areas we serve. And we continue our focus on training the next
generation of leaders.

View the IU-Kenya Partnership video (18 Minutes).
Download the IU-Kenya brochure "Building Hope" (PDF 3.53 MB).

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