On November 13, 2018, CHAI held the 4th Elif Yavuz Science Symposium to honor our colleague Elif Yavuz, who was killed in the 2013 attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Elif’s love of science and global health continues to inspire not only those who worked...
Although there has been tremendous progress in HIV testing and treatment access in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide, linkage to treatment and retention in care for people living with HIV remains a challenge in many settings. Pediatric and adolescent patients tend to...
Sitting and talking with other people living with HIV at a health facility in Uganda, Zane* no longer felt alone. Unlike many of the others there who remained on efavirenz (EFV), he had recently switched to a new treatment regimen that includes dolutegravir (DTG) and...
It was a bright and sunny day with clear skies in the village of Gafia, in Katsina, Northern Nigeria, when we visited seventeen-year-old Shamsiyya Bello. She welcomed us warmly into her home, stealing loving glances at the sleeping newborn in her arms. She proudly...
Pneumonia is a common respiratory illness in children from North America to Africa. Yet, on this World Pneumonia Day, we also recognize that it remains the single biggest killer of children under five in the world, causing more deaths each year than AIDS, malaria, and...
Children sit in a circle in the relative coolness of the village Anganwadi center (a courtyard shelter set-up by the government to provide basic health care and nutrition services in Indian villages), eating their lunch of potato curry and roti. Later in the day,...
