Hhukwini Clinic in the Hhohho region of Swaziland is a busy health center in the mountainous central-western part of the country. The clinic is visited by about 850 people per month and provides comprehensive primary health care services including diagnosis and...
After Zainab Abubakar unexpectedly gave birth at 28 weeks during her first pregnancy, her child survived for just four short hours. Today Zainab describes how fearful she was when, living in an isolated, rural village in Kaduna State in Northern Nigeria, she again...
South Africa has the third-highest Tuberculosis (TB) burden and the second-highest drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) burden globally. TB is a curable and preventable disease caused by bacteria spread from person to person through the air. Resistant forms of the disease pose a...
The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and IKEA Foundation, partnered with the Governments of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat to support scale-up of zinc and ORS, from 2012-2016. The program...
Today is International Women’s Day, a day when we celebrate the accomplishments of women and progress toward gender equality, while also reflecting on the challenges that women still face around the world. It’s impossible to think about achieving gender equality...
On January 27, the Government of Malawi and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) hosted a ceremony marking the official transition of newly constructed infrastructure from the Ministry of Health to colleges of nursing and midwifery. In total 11 new...
Today, CHAI joins the global community to celebrate Zero Discrimination Day. As a global health organization, CHAI’s staff understands the critical importance of eliminating discrimination and stigma to ensure that all people are treated with dignity and fairness and...
CHAI was founded in 2002 with the transformational goal to help save the lives of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world. By 2005, when CHAI began working on pediatric HIV/AIDS, children were being left behind at an astonishing rate: only one...
London, 30 November 2016 – UNITAID and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) today announced a three-year project to speed the introduction of new, optimal HIV drugs, and make them more available and affordable. The US$34 million investment is expected to be a...
In a small village in rural east-central Uganda, baby Josephin is happily babbling to her mother Kevina and crawling around the yard. She has recovered well from a bout of bad diarrhea that she was suffering from just one day ago. Josephin is one of the lucky ones....
