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Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 2004;292:157-159.

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It wasn't until after he retired from the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) faculty in 1999 that Joseph Mamlin, MD, encountered what he calls "a physician's worst nightmare."

Throughout the wards of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, beds were overflowing with young people dying of AIDS. The scene was a far cry from what Mamlin had witnessed in Eldoret in the early 1990s as team leader of a collaborative medical education program between IUSM and the Moi University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS).

Food, medications (including antiretroviral drugs), and voluntary counseling and testing for HIV are made available at this distribution site in Kenya. The site is the product of an innovative partnership between medical schools in the United States and Kenya. (Photo credit: Ron Pettigrew/AMPATH/IU-Kenya Partnership)

"In 1992, I watched 85 patients die on our medical wards over the course of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]