Four times a month, Nurse Amaka* goes on a few hours journey by foot to some of the remotest settlements in northern Nigeria to vaccinate children who are unable to attend the immunization sessions at her primary health center due to the long commute. Every time she...
Digital tools are improving data quality, and use of data for decision-making in indoor residual spraying campaigns, malaria case investigations, and general malaria surveillance. A famous management consultant and organizational theorist once said that “without big...
Our monthly check-in with staff from around the world. Learn more about the people who work at CHAI. Please tell us a bit about your background and what brought you to CHAI. Before joining CHAI in 2018, I was simultaneously serving in AmeriCorps and attending graduate...
Winnie Sanyu Nakimbuggwe, a nurse and health educator, has spent 13 years and hundreds of hours speaking to teenage girls at her clinic in Mityana district, Uganda. She knows the challenges they face when trying to access reproductive health services. Facilities don’t...
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...
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. The study found that same-day test results dramatically improved infants’ initiation onto life-saving...