Developing out of a partnership between Indiana University's School of Medicine and the Moi School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya, the Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV (AMPATH) is Kenya's most comprehensive initiative to combat HIV. AMPATH is a working model of urban and rural HIV preventive and treatment services in the public sector. AMPATH cares for more than 55,000 HIV infected adults and children, with nearly one half of all patients on anti-retroviral drugs and enrollment into the program rising by 2,000 patients per month.
A number of Baker & Daniels volunteers have assisted AMPATH in a range of ways, including professionals having conferred with AMPATH's Indiana-based staff on various issues. Moreover, the firm's first Public Interest Fellow, a former AMPATH employee, spent the summer of 2008 helping to develop further collaborative options for the firm and AMPATH.