Walking together, walking far : how a U.S. and African medical school partnership is winning the fight against HIV AIDS

A remarkable partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya has built one of the most comprehensive and successful programs in the world to control HIV/AIDS. Calling upon the resources of the Americans, the ingenuity of the Kenyans, and their shared determination to care for patients who had been given up for dead, the program has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and described as a miracle by the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. Doctors from Kenya and the United States -- employing methods once considered unfeasible, such as successfully administered antiretroviral regimes -- have created a model program for saving lives and empowering the sick and impoverished. Against formidable odds, these partners demonstrate how medicine and caring can overturn preconceived notions about Africa and help wipe out the world's most devastating pandemic.

A remarkable partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya has built one of the most comprehensive and successful programs in the world to control HIV/AIDS. Calling upon the resources of the Americans, the ingenuity of the Kenyans, and their shared determination to care for patients who had been given up for dead, the program has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and described as a miracle by the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. Doctors from Kenya and the United States — employing methods once considered unfeasible, such as successfully administered antiretroviral regimes — have created a model program for saving lives and empowering the sick and impoverished. Against formidable odds, these partners demonstrate how medicine and caring can overturn preconceived notions about Africa and help wipe out the world's most devastating pandemic.

This book describes the partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya and their work to build one of the most comprehensive and successful programs in the world to control HIV/AIDS. The program has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and described as a miracle by the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. Doctors from Kenya and the United States--employing methods once considered unfeasible, such as successfully administered antiretroviral regimes--have created a model program for saving lives and empowering the sick and impoverished. Against formidable odds, these partners demonstrate how medicine and caring can overturn preconceived notions about Africa and help wipe out the world's most devastating pandemic Contents......Page 8 Foreword by Paul Farmer......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 20 Map of AMPATH clinical sites......Page 22 1. Daniel......Page 26 2. Birth of a Partnership......Page 47 3. “We All Need to Be Doing More”......Page 59 4. “Seldom Has History Offered a Greater Opportunity”......Page 76 5. “We Are Not a Mortuary”......Page 92 6. Can Foreign Aid Work?......Page 102 7. The Power of the Academic Health Center......Page 122 8. AMPATH in Action......Page 131 9. Moving Upstream......Page 148 Epilogue......Page 157 Index......Page 168 The partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine has built a comprehensive and successful programmes in the world to control HIV/AIDS. This title demonstrate how medicine and caring can overturn preconceived notions about Africa and help wipe out the world's most devastating pandemic.