In Ethiopia, pneumonia accounts for 18 percent of all child deaths. Hypoxemia, or low blood oxygen, is a common and deadly complication of pneumonia. Medical oxygen is the only treatment. 

CHAI’s 2020 Annual Report is out now. The theme for the year is ‘working with urgency’.

CHAI and AFROX Zambia are helping the government of Zambia improve the availability of medical oxygen in the country, while also building a framework for local contractual agreements that could form the basis of longer-term purchasing deals by governments and global agencies that fund access to medical oxygen to avoid supply shortages.

Agreement brokered by Unitaid and CHAI under the COVID-19 Oxygen Emergency Taskforce sees two of the world’s largest medical oxygen suppliers each collaborate with these ACT-Accelerator partners on increased access to oxygen.

This is a transcript of the Investing in Oxygen webinar that was broadcast on March 11, 2021. 

Global health experts discuss importance of oxygen in saving lives, how the COVID-19 pandemic is widening gaps in access, and steps that can be taken to ensure oxygen is sustainably available in low- and middle-income countries.

The panel will discuss how oxygen can save lives, how the COVID-19 pandemic is widening gaps in access, and steps that can be taken to ensure oxygen is available in low- and middle-income countries. Panelists include Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Dr. John Nkengasong, and Ms. Joy Phumaphi.

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a long-neglected public health crisis: people dying due to lack of oxygen.

Revisit our most popular blog posts from 2020, as we highlight the challenges and successes of our work over the last year.

COVID-19 pandemic-related disruptions to health services threaten to be a further blow in the battle against the world’s biggest infectious killer of children.