Walking Together, Walking Far: How a U.S. and African Medical School Partnership is Winning the Fight Against HIV/AIDS is the first-ever book chronicling the unusual and historic partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine, the Moi University School of Medicine, and the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital.

Formed in 1989 between the IU School of Medicine on the IUPUI campus and Moi University in Kenya, the partnership responded to the HIV/AIDS pandemic by establishing the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), considered one of the world's largest and most comprehensive programs to combat HIV/AIDS.

AMPATH treats more than 70,000 HIV-positive patients at 18 sites in both urban and rural Kenya. The initiative also helps to block mother-to-child transmission of HIV at birth; sends volunteers door-to-door throughout western Kenya testing for HIV and delivering treated bed nets to prevent malaria; provides food assistance to up to 30,000 people per month; and helps orphans and vulnerable Kenyan children by providing school fees, clothing, and food.

The book's title derives from the African proverb, "If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together."

"The Indiana-Moi partnership is a model for how to tackle the huge challenges of HIV/AIDS and poverty in general, and one of the most inspiring examples of humanitarian partnership I have ever seen," says Jim Morris, former executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme.

Walking Together includes the story of the partnership's beginnings, biographical background of AMPATH leaders Sylvester Kimaiyo, Joe Mamlin, Bob Einterz, and Haroun Mengech, and a day-in-the-life of AMPATH workers and patients. It also includes behind-the-scenes accounts of the birth of the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), AMPATH's historic launch of door-to-door counseling and testing, and the dramatic story of AMPATH's response to the Kenyan post-election violence of early 2008.

Walking Together is available from Indiana University Press (www.iupress.indiana.edu) and through Amazon.com. Author Fran Quigley is director of operations and development for the IU-Kenya Partnership at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. All author proceeds support AMPATH's work.