Day 2: Dispatch from Eldoret
Karen Meacham recounts her trip with Dr. Michael Merson to Eldoret, in the Rift Valley Province.
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Blog — Kenya Trip
Answers to Your Questions About Kenya, Continued
The Staff of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center responds to some of your questions about the Kenya trip.
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A Dialogue With Senior Kenyan Health Experts
For the past several days, Commissioners have traveled through Kenya to explore the country's health challenges. Now it's time to take those findings and apply them to a U.S. strategy for global health.
Keeping Kenya’s Next Generation HIV-Free
It's a struggle at the very heart of Kenya's health problems: keeping young people HIV-free. Local leaders and health workers are working desperately to educate the next generation on precautionary measures to keep them safe from the disease which has devastated an entire generation of Africans.
Day 3: Back In Nairobi
Today the delegation will have the opportunity to discuss findings from the trip, and share impressions and perspectives they collected along the way. The team will also engage with a broader audience of Kenyan health workers and some of Kenya's top political leadership.
Karen Remley: Reflections on Monday
Karen Remley, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health, weighs in on her first day in Kenya.
Medical Research: Essential To The Future Of A Healthy Kenya
This afternoon, Helene Gayle, Congressman Keith Ellison and the rest of their team are headed out to the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Kisumu. KEMRI is one of Africa's top medical research centers, and has been key to Kenya's efforts to control HIV, malaria and other diseases.
HIV and Needle Drugs: A Growing Problem
Admiral Fallon (Ret.) and his team certainly don't have an easy Tuesday. After visiting a commercial sex worker drop-in center earlier this afternoon, they're headed directly to a halfway house in Mombasa to examine the growing problem of HIV spread through needle drugs in Africa.
Meeting With Kenya’s Sex Worker Counselors
Admiral Fallon (Ret.) and his team are heading out to a commercial sex worker drop-in center to examine the most HIV-at-risk populations in Kenya, and meet with the peer educators who counsel the sex workers every day.
A U.S. Academic Partnership With The Rift Valley
Commissioner Mike Merson is the Director of the Global Health Institute at Duke University. It's only natural that he and his team would go to the Rift Valley to study a unique collaboration between American universities and African partners to help combat HIV and other health issues. The program operates at 19 locations in Africa and cares for over 55,000 HIV patients.
Looking at a Comprehensive HIV Care Center in Mariakani
Admiral Fallon and his team will soon head to the Mariakani District Hospital in the Coast Province. The hospital is unique because it is home to a comprehensive HIV care center, established with USAID support. There, the team will study the positive impacts of the program - and what that can teach us about delivering quality care to people living with HIV.
In Nyanza: Studying Rural Health Tiwani Health Center
Out in the rural province of Nyanza, health care is a constant struggle. At the Tiwani Health Center, Helene Gayle and others will be looking at the health challenges posed by inadequate infrastructure and staffing, malnutrition, and a lack of clean water.
Home Based Care: A Solution For Kenya?
Admiral Fallon (Ret.) and team are heading out now to visit a new health care project in the Coast Province. The APHIA II Project is designed to provide home-based care to Kenyans who need it. The commissioners will be sitting down for a conversation with HIV-positive clients, who are also community health workers.
Day 2: Splitting Up To Tour Kenya
This morning, the commission is splitting into three separate groups to cover more ground.
Helene Gayle's group today flew to the Nyanza province, while Ret. Admiral Fallon and his group of commissioners are traveling to the Coast Province. Although in different parts of Kenya at different facilities, both groups are studying similar issues: the impacts of U.S. investments in African health, maternal health issues, and the challenges of reaching rural African populations with health service
Answers to Your Questions About Kenya
Stephen Morrison, Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, responds to your questions about the Kenya trip and the Commission's work.
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First Pictures In From Kenya
We've just received our first set of snapshots from the commission's trip to Kenya. Among those pictured are Commission co-chair Admiral William Fallon (retired) of the U.S. Navy; Karen Remley, Health Commissioner for Virginia; and Steve Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the Global Health Policy Center.
CARE Blogs from Kenya
CSIS partner, CARE, is also reporting in from the Commission's trip to Kenya. Check out these samples of the updates the CARE team is posting on their website, www.care.org.
Post-election Violence in Kenya and its Aftermath
Cathryn Streifel, Research Intern for the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, briefed commissioners traveling to Kenya on the Post-Election Violence.
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CDC + Carolina for Kibera = Tabitha Health Clinic
Here in Nairobi's Kibera slum, the largest in all of Africa, the Tabitha Health Clinic offers a model public-private partnership. The clinic is the product of a collaboration between the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and, Duke University and the University of North Carolina.
Are two ministries twice as good?
Just finished up lunch with senior Kenyan health officials. Our goal was to learn more about the big issues facing the health care system across Kenya, as well as how U.S. investments have made a difference -- and what challenges remain.
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