Engaging religious and traditional male leaders in Nigeria increases women and adolescent girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health services. BACKGROUND Sexual and reproductive health challenges such as early or unplanned pregnancies and...
Expanded partnership will further increase access to leading-edge cancer treatments in low- and middle-income countries including biologics and hormonal therapies Agreements could generate 60 percent savings on purchased medications Announcement supports launch of...
For Immediate Release: March 3, 2021 CONTACT: Regan Lachapelle, CHAI, rlachapelle@clintonhealthaccess.org Tom Keeble, MCRI, tom.keeble@mcri.edu.au ***MEDIA ADVISORY*** On March 11, 2021, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and Murdoch Children’s Research...
As CHAI exits Botswana, the former country team reflects on our efforts to build sustainable systems to help the Botswana government reach malaria elimination. At CHAI, we like to say that we are “working ourselves out of our jobs,” in the countries where we operate....
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a long-neglected public health crisis: people dying due to lack of oxygen. Medical oxygen, essential to fighting respiratory illnesses, was already in short supply in low- and middle-income countries around the world before the pandemic....
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 was originally a high school teacher but was always passionate about working with an NGO...
Cervical cancer, an often-preventable disease, kills more than a quarter of a million women each year. Women in low- and middle-income countries are disproportionately impacted by the disease and represent more than 85 percent of all cervical cancer-related deaths...
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our colleague, Sidonie Uwimpuhwe. Sidonie joined CHAI in 2018 as our first Rwandese national country director in Rwanda. Under her leadership, the Rwanda program has grown almost threefold in funding and impact,...
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 am a dentist by profession, of Jordanian origins. I started my professional life working in...
A new study published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society highlights a CHAI-led project in seven sub-Saharan African countries to evaluate near-point-of-care (near-POC) tests used to monitor HIV viral load. The test measures the number of HIV copies per...
