The Kingdom of Swaziland’s National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) is pursuing the ambitious goal of malaria elimination, which is defined as zero local malaria cases (originating within Swaziland’s borders). If realized, Swaziland would be the first country in...
Resource type: Blog Posts
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) Introduction in Nigeria
On April 1, 2016, Mrs. Lovina Ogolo arrives at Foursees Primary Health Care Center in Rivers State, Nigeria with her six-week old grandson, David Ogolo, to receive his vaccinations. She shows up early at the clinic with other caregivers. Some were referred by friends...
World Malaria Day 2016: Malaria elimination requires better data for better decisions
Enormous progress has recently been made in the global fight against malaria, with over a billion malaria illnesses and six million malaria deaths averted over the past 15 years. Aiming to build upon this success, the World Health Organization has set ambitious...
Integrated HIV Care for Injection Drug Users in Ukraine
In September 2015, a group of family doctors and primary care clinic staff gathered in the southern Ukranian city of Kriviy Rih to attend a provider support group-sponsored training on integrated HIV care for injection drug users at the Center of Excellence...
Supporting recovery, rebuilding, and a national health workforce in Liberia: World Health Day, 2016
Almost exactly two years ago, West Africa came face to face with a dangerous and deadly Ebola outbreak lasting well over one year and killing thousands of people, including the health workers trying to save them. Liberia, a small West African nation situated on the...
World TB Day: Testing & Treating Ex-Miners in Lesotho
In light of World TB Day today, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) recognizes the somber truth that TB is the leading infectious disease killer today. While the global TB community has made huge strides to reduce TB mortality by half since 1990, there...
On the Front Lines of Child Diarrhea in India
In remote Makhodia Village, Jhabua District in central India, a group of about 25 women gather in a small brightly painted room, protected from the heat of the midday sun inside the village health center. They are dressed in vibrant cloths--purples, blues, reds, and...
Community Health Assistants in Zambia
In Chibombo District, part of Zambia’s Central Province north of the capital of Lusaka, Josephine Mwita lives in a small mud house a few hundred yards down well-worn dirt paths from the main road with 10 members of her family. Here in this rural area, most people make...
Private Sector mRDT Training in Tanzania
On November 12, 2015, 78 private sector healthcare providers attended trainings held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on malaria rapid diagnostics tests (mRDT). From September-November of this year, participants from health facilities in eight regions in Tanzania were...
Point-of-Care Early Infant Diagnosis Symposium at 2015 ICASA
Today, on World AIDS Day, we recognize the significant progress that has been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In mid-2015, UNAIDS announced that the global goal of putting 15 million HIV-infected patients on treatment by 2015 had been reached nine months in...