News and Information

04/26/2012 CHAI - Congratulations to our partner, Hewlett Packard (HP), for winning the Justmeans Social Innovation Award for Most Strategic Us of Philanthropic Funds! We are proud to collaborate with HP, the Kenyan Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, and Strathmore University to save the lives of more than 100,000 infants in Kenya each year through our Early Infant Diagnosis Program.

04/25/2012 ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT - Scientists are reporting development of a new, higher-yield, two-step, less costly process that may ease supply problems and zigzagging prices for the raw material essential for making the mainstay drug for malaria, a disease that sickens 300-500 million people and kills more than 1 million people annually. The report on the process, which uses readily available substances and could be easily implemented by drug companies, appears in ACS’ journal Organic Process Research & Development.

02/29/2012 HEALTHCARE ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY - Swaziland National Malaria Control Programme receives 2012 'Life Changer' Award

04/24/2012 CHAI - Since the 1930s, there have been 75 documented episodes of malaria resurgence worldwide, most of which were linked to weakening of malaria control programs, finds a new study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Malaria Journal. The study, which is closely related to this year’s World Malaria Day (25th April 2012) theme of "Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria", found that the most common reason for weakening of malaria control programs was funding disruptions.

05/16/2011 CHAI, UNITAID, AND DFID - Today, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), UNITAID, and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) announced further price reductions on key antiretroviral (ARV) drug regimens used to treat HIV/AIDS in the developing world.

05/01/2011 CHAI - The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) supports national governments to expand high-quality care and treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS. CHAI offers reduced prices for antiretrovirals (ARVs) to members of its Procurement Consortium.

02/01/2012 CHAI - .pdf of Increasing Access to Medicines and Diagnostics Overview

02/01/2012 CHAI - .pdf of Global Pediatric Program Overview

02/01/2012 CHAI - .pdf of Malaria Overview

10/24/2011 CHAI and UNITAID - RfP for UNITAID-Financed Pediatric and/or Adult Second-Line Antiretrovirals for period of March 2012-February 2013

03/07/2011 CHAI - UNITAID-CHAI OI Supplier Selection Process Supplier Q&A

03/15/2011 CHAI - Cover Note: "We are pleased to invite you to participate in the June 2011 – February 2012 UNITAID Pediatric Project for the supply of Opportunistic Infection (OI) drugs"