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...
by Scott Miller | Aug 25, 2022
Four things you should know about darunavir Introduction A critical second-line HIV treatment called darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) is rolling out across Nigeria and Zambia – some of the earliest adopters of many countries that can now access an affordable supply of...
by Scott Miller | Aug 22, 2022
Hepatitis C (HCV) is an infectious, bloodborne virus that causes liver inflammation and can lead to liver failure and cancer. It is a silent killer, as patients do not exhibit any symptoms. Every 30 seconds, a person dies from a hepatitis-related illness; elimination...
by Harvey Mogojwe | Aug 17, 2022
Aug. 17, 2022 – The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) has received US$25 million in new funding commitments from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The ELMA Foundation to help nine governments build comprehensive oxygen ecosystems that will last long...
