In the late 2000s, researchers working in villages along the border of Thailand and Cambodia discovered that circulating strains of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for most malaria deaths, were evolving resistance to artemisinin-based drugs....
To mark Earth Day 2022, CHAI announces its first set of investments in carbon offsets CHAI has purchased its first set of carbon offsets in an important step to reduce our global carbon footprint. This follows CHAI’s announcement in 2021 of the formation and our...
INTRODUCTION The quality of data on routine immunization (RI) in Nigeria has been a long-standing concern for the government and its partners. In 2017, the RI module of the District Health Information System (DHIS2)—an open-source, web-based platform—was rolled out in...
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 dental medicine at Universitas Indonesia and during my undergraduate years, I...
For immediate release, April 14, 2022 — The Board of The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Neil Buddy Shah as Chief Executive Officer of CHAI, succeeding interim co-CEOs Joy Phumaphi and Ann Veneman, who will remain...
BACKGROUND Niger is one of the poorest performing states in routine immunization (RI) in Nigeria. Only 39 percent of eligible children in Niger have received the Pentavalent 3 vaccine, translating to over 150,000 unimmunized children in 2020[1]. The high-cost of...
BACKGROUND Limited health worker capacity and ineffective learning environments hinder optimal service delivery across primary healthcare (PHC) facilities in Kano State, Nigeria. Conventional training approaches that are often classroom-based, didactic, costly, and...
The Zambian government is committed to improving the availability of quality but affordable health care for the Zambian people. However, severe shortages of human capital in the health system have persisted for over twenty years—denying millions of people access to...
Effective interventions to identify and reach underserved villages with immunization services BACKGROUND Beginning in November 2020, CHAI Uganda’s vaccines team set out to help the government address challenges with routine immunization service delivery and improve...
Every year, at 8:30 pm on the last Saturday of March, people around the globe turn off their lights for one hour to raise awareness of the issues challenging our environment. It’s a way to show how small changes can catalyze transformation on a global scale. CHAI is...
