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Global Newsletter
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The AMPATH Global newsletter shares stories of our partners in Kenya, Ghana, Mexico and Nepal who are leading with care to achieve our shared vision of a global partnership ensuring health for all. Despite the challenges of the past year, AMPATH's partnerships continue to grow and thrive with your support.
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AMPATH Global Leaders Learn from Each Other
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For more than three decades, AMPATH has stood as a model for long-term partnership between universities, academic medical centers and public health systems to improve health in low-resource settings. What began as a collaboration between Indiana University and Moi University in Kenya has grown into a global network across four continents.
The 2025 Global Gathering hosted by the University of Texas at Austin celebrated that growth while challenging more than 100 AMPATH Global leaders from around the world to imagine what comes next.
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AMPATH Nepal Partners Launch Adolescent Health Clinic
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Dhulikhel Hospital and the AMPATH Nepal partnership recently launched an Adolescent Health Clinic at the hospital. The clinic was the culmination of months of work and training that brought adolescent health experts from Mount Sinai’s Arnhold Institute for Global Health to Nepal to train and support Nepali health workers in providing world-class care to adolescents.
The clinic provides comprehensive, integrated care every Thursday for young people ages 10-19, aiming to improve access to adolescent-centered health services at Dhulikhel Hospital and its surrounding rural communities.
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AMPATH/MAPAS México Builds Bridges for Health for People with Diabetes in Rural Puebla
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The AMPATH/MAPAS México team is shining a light on a growing collaboration to improve diabetes care in some of Puebla’s most underserved communities. Their project, “Developing an Innovative Model for Treating Patients with Diabetes in Rural Mexican Communities,” marks a key step toward improving how diabetes is understood, managed and treated in two rural communities near Puebla, Mexico.
Working with partners from UT’s Dell Medical School, the UT School of Nursing, Department of Educational Psychology, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) and Mexico’s National Institute for Public Health, the team set out to learn from the people most affected by diabetes: local residents.
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Kenya Partners Collaborate on Pediatric Intensive Care
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Every morning and many evenings in Eldoret, Dr. Joram Nyandat faces a daunting caseload: children gasping from pneumonia, toddlers limp from dehydration, teens with head injuries after road crashes. He is western Kenya’s only pediatric intensivist—managing critically ill children across crowded wards, an overstretched emergency department, and, when space allows, a few beds in the adult surgical intensive care unit (ICU) at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH).
“On a typical day we receive three to four requests for a pediatric ICU bed,” he says. “Most of them don’t get one.” Experience shows that many will succumb to their illness or injuries. “That’s what keeps me up at night,” Dr. Nyandat says quietly. “We’re losing children we could save with the right support for two or three days.” Over the last two years, AMPATH partners have worked together to plan and provide the necessary training and procure the required equipment for a pediatric ICU.
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More Than a Rotation: University for Development Studies Students Reflect on Off-Campus Clinical Training in Ghana
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In the lively town of Techiman, about a 3.5-hour drive (257 km) from Tamale, Ghana, Holy Family Hospital has become more than just a site of learning--it has transformed into a hub of mentorship, teamwork and purpose. As a strategic initiative within the AMPATH Ghana partnership, nearly 170 medical students from University of Development Studies (UDS) were placed in this peri-urban health facility to undertake off-campus clinical training (OCCT). They engaged with patients and families facing significant health challenges, and their learning went far beyond textbooks and procedures.
The OCCT program complements clinical teaching at Tamale Teaching Hospital, and aims to bridge the gap between academic knowledge and frontline practice. For two months, students work alongside seasoned clinicians and participate in ward rounds, surgeries, and emergency cases that emphasize critical thinking, clinical ethics and communication skills.
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Joe & Sarah Ellen Mamlin Return to Their Kenyan Home
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Sarah Ellen and I spent 20 of the last 25 years living in Kenya. You can imagine our excitement when the AMPATH program offered us a chance to return during the last two weeks of June. Our return was prompted by a series of challenging circumstances for AMPATH Kenya and the hope that we could be part of the dialogue yielding the best way forward.
But for the moment, we forgot the “work” and bathed in the outpouring of love we felt from the moment we stepped off the plane and realized we were “home” again!
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Support AMPATH Partnerships Around the World
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AMPATH's partnerships around the world are saving and improving lives every day through expanded access to care, training the healthcare workforce and conducting research to improve care and impact policy.
Click on the map to learn more about each partnership and how your gift to the AMPATH partnership of your choice will accelerate the growth of sustainable healthcare systems.
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Join the AMPATH Global Partnership
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AMPATH Kenya is seeking a senior research scientist to serve as co-Director of Research for the AMPATH Kenya Research Program and Director of Research for the IU Center for Global Health Equity.
AMPATH Ghana also has leadership positions in medicine, pediatrics, OB/GYN and pharmacy available in Tamale, Ghana.
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AMPATH Consortium
702 Rotary Circle #101
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317-278-0829
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AMPATH Kenya
P.O. Box 4606
Eldoret, Kenya 30100
+254-532-033-471
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