This World AIDS Day, we celebrate the tremendous progress that has been made in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with more than 20 million people living with HIV accessing life-saving antiretroviral treatment (ART) as of today. The incredible scale up of ART in...
I grew up privileged. Access to clean water, food, health care, and education was never an issue during my childhood in California. While we were never wealthy from an American perspective, we always had enough to meet our basic needs. This privilege is something most...
It was the spring of 1998, while working as a clinician in Lesotho, that I first realized the terrible impact that HIV would have on my country. Patients were growing sicker by the day, and at times I thought I might not even have any more patients to care for within...
Carol M. Mufana has worked with CHAI in Zambia since 2013, but it wasn’t until her own son’s life was saved by a doctor whose training was facilitated by CHAI that the work the organization was doing really hit home. I met Dr. Vernon Pashi in June of 2017 when my...
Almost 1 milion children die each year from pneumonia. Here is how Nigeria is making sure hospitals have the right tools to fight back.
This webinar, the second in a two-part series, highlights tools and resources in CHAI’s HIV New Product Introduction Toolkit. The toolkit provides ministries of health and implementing partners with the tools necessary to evaluate the adoption and introduction of new...
This webinar, the first in a two-part series, guides usage of CHAI’s HIV New Product Introduction Toolkit. The toolkit provides Ministries of Health and implementing partners with the tools necessary to evaluate the adoption and introduction of new HIV products in...
The HIV/AIDS community received good news ahead of the 2017 International AIDS Society (IAS) meeting in Paris: for the first time ever, more than 50 percent of people living with HIV were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the end of 2016 and AIDS-related...
National HIV treatment programs are preparing for big shifts in their national treatment guidelines and patient regimens. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2016 guidelines included a number of antiretroviral (ARV) medications that are more effective, tolerable and...
As we recognize World Hepatitis Day this year, there is hope for millions of people living with chronic hepatitis around the world. New, directly acting antiviral (DAA) medications are providing a cure to people infected with the disease. In Vietnam, one of the...
