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Seventeen years ago a partnership was formed between Indiana University, ASANTE (America/sub-Saharan Africa Network for Training and Education in Medicine), and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. In the past 7 years it has become the most successful program in sub-Saharan Africa to combat HIV/AIDS and teach prevention of this disease. As importantly, it has formed a conduit for dozens of Indiana initiatives to link with local groups in Kenya. This is definitely worth celebrating!

When: Saturday October 13 — 6:00 PM begins cocktails and silent auction; 7:00 PM dinner, program, dancing, and entertainment
Where: Downton Marriott 350 W. Maryland St. Indianapolis

This is a major fundraiser for an essential program, so don’t expect to get in the door cheaply. But do expect your tax-deductable contribution to go to a very worthy cause, and do expect to be educated, entertained, and enlightened over the course of the evening. If you would like to participate in the festivities, receive an invitation, or for more information regarding the gala activities, email Ron Pettigrew at: rpettigr@iupui.edu or call 317.630.8695. Download the invitation’s RSVP card; print, complete, and and mail to: IU-Kenya Partnership, 1001 W. 10th Street, M200, Indianapolis, IN 46202

What you should know about the IU-Kenya program:

In 1989, Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine agreed to join together to develop leaders in health care for both the U.S. and Africa. That mission inspired this team to provide invaluable training to future generations of health care providers in both continents. At the turn of the century, in the face of the deadliest pandemic in human history, IU and Moi responded by creating one of Africa’s largest, most comprehensive and effective HIV/AIDS control systems. The Indiana-Kenya Partnership responded to the HIV/AIDS crisis by creating the Academic Model for Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH), which treats over 48,000 HIV-positive patients at 19 sites in both urban and rural Kenya.

AMPATH also:

• Protects babies by blocking mother-to-child transmission of HIV at birth
• Prevents HIV/AIDS through outreach to encourage safe practices, prevent the spread of the disease, and confront the deadly effects of HIV/AIDS stigma
• Fights hunger through providing food security programs, created to serve the thousands of patients who are malnourished. With high-production farms and demonstration farms that teach subsistence farmers to get the most out of their crops and livestock, we provide food assistance to up to 30,000 people per month.
• Builds self-sufficiency through offering income security programs, which address patients’ economic security needs through skills training, small business loans, a fair-trade-certified crafts workshop and an agricultural co-operative.
• Helps orphans and vulnerable children by providing school fees, clothing and food to the many Kenyan children orphaned by AIDS.

Even as IU-Moi expands HIV/AIDS care, the partnership is working to build capacity to care for mothers and babies, treat cancer patients, perform surgeries and insure safe water for the areas served. Over 500 Kenyans and Americans have participated in the academic medical exchange between Moi and IU.

Download the IU-Kenya brochure “Building Hope”

If this event sounds interesting, here Joe Mamlin of IU-Moi explain his program’s importance October 23.

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