by Corina Milic | Apr 25, 2020
Cambodia plans to eliminate malaria by 2025. A network of volunteers in hard-to-reach communities is key to making it happen. Chhean Savry wades across a stream and onto a well-worn path through the dense forest at the edge of the Cardamom mountains, a malaria hotspot...
by Corina Milic | Apr 24, 2020
Our monthly checkin 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 studied business and finance during undergrad. After graduation, I spent two years at Procter...
by Corina Milic | Apr 6, 2020
Four years ago, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) commemorated World Health Worker week by thanking health workers for their service to the public. In particular, we celebrated those in Liberia addressing a new surge in cases two years into the Ebola...
by Corina Milic | Mar 27, 2020
Our monthly checkin 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 am a Sierra Leonean that has lived and studied in Sierra Leone, Norway, USA, and Rwanda. I...
by Corina Milic | Mar 24, 2020
Finding and treating people with tuberculosis is critical to slow the disease. Preventing it in the first place will help end the epidemic. We can prevent and cure tuberculosis. But based on current rates, it will take over 100 years. A far cry from the goals set out...
by Corina Milic | Mar 23, 2020
In India, about 80 percent of people who live in rural areas don’t have access to safe drinking water. Each year almost half a million deaths in the country can be attributed to water-borne diseases, like diarrhea, associated with drinking contaminated water. In the...
by Corina Milic | Mar 8, 2020
At CHAI, our staff is our greatest asset. Our efforts are driven by the talent, creativity, and hard work of our people. This year, for International Women’s Day, we are highlighting several of the women who work at CHAI. Their stories are pulled from the personal...
by Corina Milic | Feb 27, 2020
A cluster-randomized control trial in two provinces of Zambia BACKGROUND For HIV-positive mothers, postnatal care visits are critical to avoid transmitting the disease to their babies. These visits increase access to early infant diagnostics, which test infants for...
by Corina Milic | Jan 20, 2020
From January to June 2018, the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care, in collaboration with the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI), ran a pilot program offering PrEP at two public health...
by Corina Milic | Dec 20, 2019
Malaria Day in the Americas is celebrated each year on November 6th with the goal of promoting awareness, building engagement, and triggering action as the region works towards malaria elimination. It´s also an opportunity to highlight progress made by national...
