Center for Global Health Equity

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- My name is Adrian Gardner.

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I'm an infectious disease
physician here at IU.

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I've been based in Kenya
for the last seven years

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as the executive field director
for the AMPATH Consortium.

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The Consortium's a group of
North American institutions

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that partner together under the leadership

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of Indiana University and
ultimately partner together

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with Moi Teaching & Referral
Hospital and Moi University,

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particularly the college
of health sciences.

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I'm a bit of an AMPATH lifer.

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I went first Eldoret in
2001 as a medical student

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from Brown University and
then returned in 2006-2007

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for a year as the internal
medicine team leader

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and I was going back and
forth working tuberculosis

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and HIV and then returned
full-time in 2012

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as the executive field director.

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I caught the bug in 2001 as a student.

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I think it just, it's a very
unique model of engagement

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in global health and it
gives us all an opportunity

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to engage in direct patient
care and that mission

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of leading with care.

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Creating a platform for
education and research,

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but the concept of leading
with care was very appealing.

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Yeah, so IU and through
the AMPATH partnership

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have really had a major
impact on the HIV epidemic

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and really health
systems in western Kenya.

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I think there's no question
that AMPATH was one

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of the leaders in providing
HIV care in the beginning

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and because of the
institutional partnership

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that we had, we were
able to rapidly scale up

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our HIV treatment program
in a way that really

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made a huge difference in people's lives

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and there's still
significant amounts of stigma

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and there are still
people who delay coming

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to seek care because of lack of disclosure

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or concern about stigma.

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It's definitely gotten
better than it used to be,

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but there's still some ways to go.

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My favorite part of working
with AMPATH is really

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the people that we work with.

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We have an amazing team, both
Kenyans and North Americans

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and we have a great community
of people that are all

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striving to work in the same direction

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to try and improve care and
education and do groundbreaking

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research that can inform
care models in sub-Saharan

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Africa and other parts of the world.

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So being part of a team
where we're all feeling

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like we're moving in the same direction

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and unified in our vision is really

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the most important thing.

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And I think the opportunity
to really touch patients

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and make a huge difference
in someone's life

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when you're dealing with
that level of poverty,

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it's very easy to make a
huge difference in someone's

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life by something very simple
and that's very meaningful

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and rewarding because you
get that immediate feedback.