by Harvey Mogojwe | Sep 1, 2021
For every thousand children born in Zambia, 61 will die before their fifth birthday – almost twice the global rate. The leading causes of death include pre-term birth complications, birth asphyxia and trauma, pneumonia, congenital anomalies, diarrhea, and malaria, all...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Aug 5, 2021
TB program point-of-care testing was leveraged for HIV viral load and early infant diagnosis testing. Many national testing and treatment programs have traditionally been “vertical” in nature – focused on one disease alone – and have relied on processing tests in...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Aug 3, 2021
In 2011, the HPTN 052 trial demonstrated that people living with HIV who initiated treatment earlier – also referred to as early access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all – were less likely to transmit the virus to partners. Adoption of this approach meant that...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Jul 27, 2021
Hepatitis C (HCV) affects more than 58 million people worldwide, and a significant number of people with the disease will progress to chronic disease, liver cancer, and death. Although HCV is curable in more than 95 percent of patients with direct-acting antivirals...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Jul 15, 2021
Our monthly check-in with staff from around the world. Learn more about the people who work at CHAI. Please tell us a bit about your background and what brought you to CHAI. I studied economics and finance at Newcastle University in the UK and proceeded to master in...
