After Zainab Abubakar unexpectedly gave birth at 28 weeks during her first pregnancy, her child survived for just four short hours. Today Zainab describes how fearful she was when, living in an isolated, rural village in Kaduna State in Northern Nigeria, she again...
South Africa has the third-highest Tuberculosis (TB) burden and the second-highest drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) burden globally. TB is a curable and preventable disease caused by bacteria spread from person to person through the air. Resistant forms of the disease pose a...
From the archives: Monica’s difficult road to a career in health
On January 27, the Government of Malawi and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) hosted a ceremony marking the official transition of newly constructed infrastructure from the Ministry of Health to colleges of nursing and midwifery. In total 11 new...
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...
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 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....
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...
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,...
Sixteen years ago, the 13th International AIDS Conference (IAS) convened in Durban, South Africa, to “break the silence” on the millions of preventable AIDS-related deaths occurring around the world. The summit was notable as it laid out the clear case that HIV causes...
