by Harvey Mogojwe | May 3, 2023
Within months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, CHAI collaborated with Rwanda’s National Reference Laboratory (NRL) to rapidly plan for and scale up a national testing program. When antigen testing became available, with CHAI support, the Ministry of Health swiftly...
by Scott Miller | May 3, 2023
This is the current list of sessions that CHAI is participating in at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference (IMNHC) in Cape Town, South Africa from May 8-11, 2023. *Please note that this page is continuously being updated as participants and sessions...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Apr 26, 2023
Over the last decades, the ability to collect and use data for making decisions has increasingly become important—from transportation, entertainment, marketing to even the health industry. Yet, the ability to collect and use quality data for informed decisions is not...
by Corina Milic | Apr 25, 2023
Malaria was one of CHAI’s earliest program areas — launching in 2007 — and Justin Cohen has been around to see nearly everything. After working as a technical advisor for several years, Justin became director of the malaria program in 2013. Now as the program vice...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Apr 13, 2023
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. After completing my PhD at Imperial College London in infectious disease epidemiology, I...
by Corina Milic | Apr 6, 2023
A new article in the Journal of the International AIDS Society highlights the urgent need for a clear strategy to prevent and treat advanced HIV disease in children and teens. Many children and teens living with HIV still present with severe immunosuppression. They do...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Apr 4, 2023
Viral hepatitis deaths are projected to outnumber HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria deaths combined by 2040. Vaccines and treatments for viral hepatitis could end the epidemic, but investments and political will are lacking. The conference aims to raise significant funds...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Mar 28, 2023
Biomedical engineers or technicians (BMEs/Ts) play a critical role in healthcare provision, particularly in ensuring hospitals can provide lifesaving medical oxygen supplies to the patients who need it most. They are responsible for repairing and maintaining a range...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Mar 27, 2023
The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a sub-grantee of FHI360 on the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project, a global five-year project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). FHI360 is the prime implementing...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Mar 24, 2023
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is on the rise globally with an estimated 450,000 new cases in 2021.[1] However, only one in three DR-TB patients worldwide receive lifechanging treatment with a success rate between 50-60 percent. As a result, there is increased...
