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It was a bright and sunny day with clear skies in the village of Gafia, in Katsina, Northern Nigeria, when we visited seventeen-year-old Shamsiyya Bello. She welcomed us warmly into her home, stealing loving glances at the sleeping newborn in her arms. She proudly told us that the healthy baby was not born that way....
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CHAI and IKEA Foundation are working with the government to set a bold vision to rapidly reduce pneumonia deaths
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The 2017 Annual Report looks back at what we have accomplished over the year, as well as toward the goals that we have set for each of our programs over the next five to 10 years.
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Children sit in a circle in the relative coolness of the village Anganwadi center (a courtyard shelter set-up by the government to provide basic health care and nutrition services in Indian villages), eating their lunch of potato curry and roti. Later in the day, mothers will arrive to pick up Take-Home Rations (THR) from the...
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About 250 million preschool children are vitamin A deficient and up to half a million of these children become blind every year, of which about 50 percent die within 12 months of losing sight. Infants and children need vitamin A to promote rapid growth, to prevent infections, and to improve prognosis for common childhood illnesses...
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A clear understanding of the complex, ever-changing antiretroviral (ARV) and diagnostic markets in low- and middle-income countries is critical for all stakeholders in the HIV space. To address this need, CHAI publishes an annual HIV market report for public consumption based on aggregated market intelligence from our programmatic work in over 30 countries. We are...
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CHAI’s HIV Market Report provides a global perspective on the ARV marketplace in low- and middle-income countries in 2017 and outlines CHAI’s expectations on how the market will evolve over the next five years. Read the report here: 2018 HIV Market Report
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After five hours hunched in a crowded minibus, three hours trying to soothe a crying baby, and one hour waiting to see a healthcare worker, she had made it. This Malawian mother had finally made it to a health facility to test her baby for HIV. Despite the hours of travel, she soon learned that...
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Seventeen years: This is how long it typically takes for a scientifically tested intervention to be integrated into standard practice, according to experts. But can this gap between research and policy be closed? Health sector stakeholders in Rwanda are trying to do just that. On Friday August 24th, the Rwandan Ministry of Health, the Rwanda...
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In 2015, HIV was the cause of 19 percent of all childhood deaths under the age of five in Lesotho. Previous strategies to identify and treat children who were living with HIV had proven ineffective and Lesotho’s goal to reach 80 percent of children living with HIV had fallen short, with only 30 percent of...
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