The Kingdom of Swaziland’s National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) is pursuing the ambitious goal of malaria elimination, which is defined as zero local malaria cases (originating within Swaziland’s borders). If realized, Swaziland would be the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve this public health milestone. Swaziland is close: during the July 2014-June 2015 malaria…

On April 1, 2016, Mrs. Lovina Ogolo arrives at Foursees Primary Health Care Center in Rivers State, Nigeria with her six-week old grandson, David Ogolo, to receive his vaccinations. She shows up early at the clinic with other caregivers. Some were referred by friends or health workers, while others heard a radio advertisement that a…

Enormous progress has recently been made in the global fight against malaria, with over a billion malaria illnesses and six million malaria deaths averted over the past 15 years. Aiming to build upon this success, the World Health Organization has set ambitious targets of reducing malaria mortality and case incidence by an additional 40% by…

In September 2015, a group of family doctors and primary care clinic staff gathered in the southern Ukranian city of Kriviy Rih to attend a provider support group-sponsored training on integrated HIV care for injection drug users at the Center of Excellence Psychiatric Dispensary. Here in Kriviy Rih, a city with an injection drug user…

(Barcelona, April 15, 2016) – Ministries of Health in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Vietnam are accelerating access to hepatitis C (HCV) testing and treatment with technical assistance from the Quick-Start program, which aims to cure 25,000 people of HCV in the next two years. The Quick-Start program is a partnership of the Clinton…

(Boston, MA, April 13, 2016) – The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) and AmeriCares, with the aid of a multi-year product-donation from Bristol-Myers Squibb, have initiated a first-of-its-kind program in Africa and Asia aimed at curing hepatitis C (HCV) among patients co-infected with HCV and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to…

The IKEA Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) announce a new four-year grant, which commenced in January 2016, aimed at improving nutritional outcomes and child health in Madhya Pradesh, India. “The IKEA Foundation believes that every child has the right to a healthy start in life, so we are donating €9.7 million to CHAI…

Almost exactly two years ago, West Africa came face to face with a dangerous and deadly Ebola outbreak lasting well over one year and killing thousands of people, including the health workers trying to save them. Liberia, a small West African nation situated on the coast is a lively, beautiful, yet poor nation of nearly…

In light of World TB Day today, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) recognizes the somber truth that TB is the leading infectious disease killer today. While the global TB community has made huge strides to reduce TB mortality by half since 1990, there is still a long way to go.[1] The Global Plan…

In 2014, Zambia was planning to distribute 6-7 million insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs), but only limited information was available on the most efficient distribution and hang-up approach to optimize ITN ownership and use in Zambia. A door-to-door distribution strategy had been previously used throughout Zambia, but was highly challenging and costly in terms of time, supervision…