_From AIDS to Population Health_ explores the thirty-year history of
a unique collaboration between the medical schools of Indiana
University and Moi University in Kenya, as it
progressed from combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in East
Africa to the building of a national plan to provide universal
healthcare to all. The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare
(AMPATH) program focuses on the medical education of healthcare
professionals who are building communities that can take care of
themselves.
The overwhelming success of the AMPATH program and its continuing
vibrant legacy today are showcased through dozens of striking
photographs, telling interviews, and revealing anecdotes and
encounters. It focuses on four of the most innovative projects among
the fifty that AMPATH oversees: a microfinance officer who organizes
villagers, an oncology nurse who runs outreach clinics, a farm
extension agent working in partnership with a multinational
agriculture corporation to improve farm output, and a special
healthcare clinic exclusively for adolescents.
Over its thirty-year history, AMPATH has served more than a million
clients and trained 2,600 medical professionals and community health
workers, always guided by its motto "Leading with Care." _From AIDS to
Population Health_ presents their compelling stories and explores the
program's continuing legacy for the first time.
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How an American University and a Kenyan Medical School Transformed Healthcare in East Africa
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780253062772
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Indiana University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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