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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 have access to quality health care. People are dying unnecessarily from AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other...
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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 in 40 children in need was on treatment. Why were...
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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. She was able to access effective treatment...
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Pneumonia is the leading cause of death for children globally, taking more lives annually than HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. It is estimated that a child dies from pneumonia every 35 seconds. Pneumonia, a severe respiratory infection in which a child’s lungs fill with fluid, makes it difficult for them to absorb and exchange oxygen....
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A Neglected Disease in Africa Sub-Saharan Africa’s cancer burden is significant and growing. In 2012, there were an estimated 626,400 new cases of cancer and 447,700 deaths from cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization projects that by 2030, close to 1 million people will die of cancer each year in Sub-Saharan Africa....
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