by Corina Milic | Nov 9, 2022
The organizers of COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, are calling this year’s gathering in Egypt a “defining moment in the fight against climate change.” We believe that the health of women and infants must be on the agenda as some of the most...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Nov 8, 2022
People with disabilities are more than twice as likely to die prematurely, taking 10 to 20 years off their life expectancy, report finds. Health services must be designed to include one billion people with disabilities globally following shocking findings on life...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Nov 4, 2022
South Africa has made great progress towards reducing maternal mortality and newborn deaths over the past decade. However, the country still needs to significantly improve the quality of services provided to achieve the relevant Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 to...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Nov 3, 2022
November 3, 2022: The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) warmly welcomes Ms. Ophelia Dahl to the Board of Directors. Ms. Dahl is a co-founder of Partners In Health (PIH) and led the organization as Executive Director for 14 years (2001-2015). She now chairs its...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Oct 27, 2022
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. I started working at CHAI as a volunteer in 2004 after a lengthy career in the mining...
by Scott Miller | Oct 24, 2022
Around the world, 2.5 billion people need assistive products and services. Yet nearly one billion of them are denied access, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where access can be as low as 3 percent of the need for these life-changing products. For...
by Scott Miller | Oct 21, 2022
Background In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 296 million people around the globe were chronically infected by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). In the same year, an estimated 820,000 deaths resulted from liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular...
by Scott Miller | Oct 12, 2022
As part of a growing portfolio of biomedical HIV prevention options, long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) was approved by the US FDA in December 2021. Evidence from two clinical trials, HPTN 083 and HPTN 084, which enrolled nearly 8,000 participants across 13...
by Scott Miller | Sep 19, 2022
Our monthly check-in with staff from around the world. Learn more about the people who work at CHAI. Lakshmi Balachandran Senior Director, Digital Health London, UK Start date: August 2013 Sameen Babur Senior Technical Advisor, Health Informatics Washington, D.C., USA...
by Scott Miller | Sep 7, 2022
10-country partnership in Africa and Southeast Asia—to introduce COVID oral antivirals and national test-and-treat programs—announced by new public-private consortium. As Omicron subvariants continue to emerge and spread, the COVID Treatment Quick Start...
