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Indiana-Kenya Partnership Receives $5 Million USAID Grant to Expand Comprehensive Care
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan 27, 2010 (ASCRIBE NEWS via COMTEX) --
AMPATH, the
joint partnership between Indiana University School of
Medicine, the Moi (Eldoret, Kenya) University School of
Medicine and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, has
received a 3-year, $5 million USAID supplement grant to
expand health care services in western Kenya.
AMPATH - the Academic Model Providing Access to
Healthcare - received a 5-year, $60 million grant from the
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
in 2007 to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS in Kenya. The
supplemental funding announced today will combine with other
private funding to allow for the expansion of the network of
clinics to provide more comprehensive care to people in
western Kenya. Currently, more than 100,000 Kenyans receive
HIV/AIDS treatment through USAID-AMPATH's system of
community health workers in 23 full-time clinics and 23
satellite clinic locations.
Robert Einterz, M.D., associate dean for international
programs and a clinical professor of medicine at the IU
School of Medicine, is a co-founder of the Indiana-Kenya
Partnership and AMPATH.
"Even though the HIV/AIDS pandemic inevitably caused us
to focus on the disease that was ravaging eastern Africa, we
never stopped working to improve primary care," said
Dr. Einterz. "Now, with the help of many partners, we are
working to create the same kind of model for primary care
that USAID-AMPATH has provided for HIV care."
The original mission of AMPATH was to foster education,
research and treatment in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Now, USAID-AMPATH will build on its success in responding to
the HIV/AIDS emergency by providing more comprehensive
health care in a population area of two million persons.
This care includes maternal-child care and chronic disease
management, including care for diabetes, cancer and heart
disease.
AMPATH is the outgrowth of an IU School of Medicine and
Moi University partnership formed 20 years ago. Other
U.S. universities and Kenya agencies have joined the
partnership to establish a breadth of services to
individuals, families and their communities in this
sub-Saharan nation.
For more information on the Indiana-Kenya Partnership and
USAID-AMPATH, see http://www.iukenya.org .
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CONTACTS:
Mary Hardin, 317-274-7722, mhardin@iupui.edu
Megan Miller, 317-630-6882, mejmille@iupui.edu
((AScribe - The Public Interest Newswire / http://www.ascribe.org))
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