Iain Barton joins the CHAI team as CEO on May 1st, 2020. We recently sat down with Iain to chat about our COVID-19 response, what he is bringing to the organization, and setting “big, hairy, audacious goals” for the future. The interview has been lightly edited for...
Agreement is part of Unitaid and CHAI’s Advanced HIV Disease Initiative To further increase access, CHAI and Unitaid are requesting partner participation in an Early Market Access Vehicle to generate evidence and inform implementation in additional countries Unitaid...
The Early Market Access Vehicle (EMAV) is the first phase of a two-phased strategy designed by Unitaid and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) to enable expanded access to the VISITECT® CD4 Advanced Disease test. Through the EMAV, selected implementing...
The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) are developing a new HIV medication that could be effective for up to one year, transforming the lives of people living with the disease. A study on this research...
Cambodia plans to eliminate malaria by 2025. A network of volunteers in hard-to-reach communities is key to making it happen. Chhean Savry wades across a stream and onto a well-worn path through the dense forest at the edge of the Cardamom mountains, a malaria hotspot...
Our monthly checkin 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 business and finance during undergrad. After graduation, I spent two years at Procter...
Four years ago, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) commemorated World Health Worker week by thanking health workers for their service to the public. In particular, we celebrated those in Liberia addressing a new surge in cases two years into the Ebola...
Our monthly checkin 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 Sierra Leonean that has lived and studied in Sierra Leone, Norway, USA, and Rwanda. I...
Finding and treating people with tuberculosis is critical to slow the disease. Preventing it in the first place will help end the epidemic. We can prevent and cure tuberculosis. But based on current rates, it will take over 100 years. A far cry from the goals set out...
In India, about 80 percent of people who live in rural areas don’t have access to safe drinking water. Each year almost half a million deaths in the country can be attributed to water-borne diseases, like diarrhea, associated with drinking contaminated water. In the...
