CHAI in partnership with Cambodia’s Preventable Medicine Department and the Provincial Health Department of Takeo and Kampong Chhnang Provinces, designed and implemented a pilot program to provide adults over 40 with diabetes and hypertension screening while they received their COVID-19 vaccinations.
As we revisit several of our most popular pieces of content from 2021, we focus not only on the challenges the pandemic has caused health programs across our partner countries, but also the resilience that our partners have shown in their response.
Our monthly check-in with staff from around the world. Learn more about the people who work at CHAI.
On World AIDS Day, we reflect on the growing inequalities in access to essential HIV services that many countries face – and work being done to close the gap.
CHAI in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service and the Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana are working to close the gap between diagnosis and treatment of sickle cell disease, for newborns.
On Nov. 15, 2021 CHAI, MedAccess, and SD Biosensor announced a partnership to increase access to rapid diagnostic tests for syphilis and HIV.
In a corner of the emergency pediatric unit a four-year-old boy with pneumonia was struggling to breathe despite using an oxygen concentrator. The hospital technician was called to check on the machine and discovered it was broken—the concentrator had been pumping ambient air.
Our monthly check-in with staff from around the world. Learn more about the people who work at CHAI.
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.
Working with the Ministry of Health Zambia, CHAI, and other partners procured and distributed BP machines, thermometers, timers and bicycles to 600 community health assistants to support community surveillance of non-communicable diseases in Northern, Muchinga, Luapula, Copperbelt, North-Western, and Central provinces.
