CHAI has played a critical role in the success of the HIV response over the last 20 years. We work closely with governments, communities of people living with HIV, international donors, and other institutions to create sustainable, effective public HIV programs in partner countries.

At the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 2000s, treating HIV cost over US$10,000 per person per year. CHAI’s pioneering work in negotiating price reductions and generic medicine licenses, together with critical efforts from partners like PEPFAR and the Global Fund, has dramatically reduced that.

Today, over 28 million people in low- and middle-income countries, including 880,000 children, have access to best-in-class treatment for less than US$45 per adult per year and under US$100 per child per year. The best available pediatric HIV medicine (pDTG) is available in over 90 countries after being developed in record time through a CHAI-led partnership. AIDS-related deaths have fallen by 64 percent since their peak in 2005. And new HIV infections have declined by 54 percent since their peak in 1996.

Ending the AIDS epidemic is within our reach. CHAI is working alongside our partners toward this objective by:

Catalyzing the rapid development and introduction of affordable HIV treatments with fewer side-effects for children and adults in Africa and Southeast Asia.

Listening to the voices, needs, and preferences of people living with HIV and ensuring they are at the center of the HIV response.

Ending childhood AIDS by scaling innovate service delivery models to better test and treat children, adolescents, and pregnant and breastfeeding people.

Preventing new infections by working with countries to introduce highlight effective interventions, such as voluntary medical male circumcision, oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and cabotegravir long-acting injectable (CAB-LA).

Increasing global focus on advanced HIV disease (AHD), or AIDS and implementing screening and treatment programs for children and adults across low- and middle-income countries.

Better integrating HIV care into public health systems, including mental health, sexual and reproductive health services to provide more convenient and holistic services to clients.