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What patients want: New approaches to providing reproductive healthcare
Girls look to their health providers for empathetic, confidential, same-day care. Yet, too often, health centers cannot provide this, and girls are left without the tools and support they need to protect their health.
Difficult treatments hamper fight to end TB, but in Zimbabwe new regimen makes prevention easier
Tuberculosis can be prevented with treatment. But in Zimbabwe, long treatment duration and the fear of painful side effects made preventative therapy a hard sell for some patients. CHAI’s Makaita Gombe explains the difference a new treatment has made for the people she works with every day.
Point-of-care early infant diagnosis of HIV improves treatment initiation
The Journal of the International AIDS Society has published a CHAI-led evaluation of point-of-care early infant diagnosis (POC EID) of HIV in six African countries.
5 Questions with Sajal Marwaha
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With malaria elimination in sight, CHAI wraps up work in Botswana
As CHAI exits Botswana, former team members reflect on our efforts to build sustainable systems to help the government eliminate malaria.
Shining a light on oxygen scarcity
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a long-neglected public health crisis: people dying due to lack of oxygen.
5 Questions with Sivantha Hul
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Despite COVID-19 hurdles, cervical cancer screening and treatment programs continue to grow
In 2019, CHAI launched our cervical cancer program with support from Unitaid. We partnered with governments in seven low-and-middle income countries to scale up safe, effective, and affordable pre-cancer screening and treatment technologies and assist partner governments in achieving global cervical cancer elimination targets, aiming to reduce the rate of premature mortality from the disease by a third.
CHAI statement on the passing of Sidonie Uwimpuhwe
Sidonie represented so much of the present and future of CHAI. A committed scholar and strong advocate for patients and especially women’s rights, she was a role model and mentor to many in our family.