Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare Plus (AMPATH Plus)
Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare is a partnership between Moi University School of Medicine, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, and a consortium of U.S. medical schools led by Indiana University. It was established in 2001 as a successful model of HIV/AIDS control that uses a system-based approach to the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS that closely links clinical care, research, and training. It is currently Kenya’s largest and most comprehensive HIV/AIDS care program. It has enrolled more than 160,000 HIV patients throughout western Kenya.
Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare fosters a comprehensive approach to HIV/AIDS control that complements and enhances the existing health infrastructure. It provides comprehensive, integrated sustainable efforts in HIV Prevention and Care, Primary Health Care, and Chronic Disease Management. It achieves its objectives by addressing food and income security needs, delivering and monitoring ARV treatment, and fostering prevention of HIV transmission through community-based health education and prevention of maternal-to-child transmission.
Activity Description
Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare works with all levels of health providers from the highest levels of government to community health workers to provide effective and culturally appropriate care. It provides and expands sustainable access to high quality care and works to:
- Prevent HIV/AIDS through outreach to encourage safe practices, prevent the spread of the disease, and confront the deadly effects of HIV/AIDS stigma.
- Protect Babies by blocking mother-to-child transmission of HIV at birth. ]
- Fight Hunger through the HAART and Harvest Initiative with high-production farms and demonstration farms that teach subsistence farmers to get the most out of their crops and livestock. Also partners with the U.N. World Food Program to provide food assistance to 30,000 people per month.
- Build Self-Sufficiency through the Family Preservation Initiative provides skills training, small business loans and group savings, a fair-trade crafts workshop and agricultural co-operative and extension services to more than 4,000 HIV-positive patients.
- Manage Chronic Diseases through treatment of diabetes, cancer, hypertension and pulmonary and cardio vascular diseases.
Expected Outcomes
- Radically diminish the incidence of HIV
- Decrease maternal, infant, and under-5 mortality rates by 50%
- Demonstrate treatment and control strategies for selected non-communicable diseases
- Enhance the capacity of Ministry of Health referral services
- Develop a more functional, relevant electronic health record system
- Demonstrate a replicable, scalable model of care delivery that holds the promise of defeating the HIV/AIDS pandemic
Actual Outcomes
- 2,459 health care workers have completed an in service training program
- More than 1 million Kenyans reached through a home-based counseling and testing HIV program
- 62,174 people actively receiving antiretroviral therapy through activity-supported sites
