by Corina Milic | Mar 1, 2017
Today, CHAI joins the global community to celebrate Zero Discrimination Day. As a global health organization, CHAI’s staff understands the critical importance of eliminating discrimination and stigma to ensure that all people are treated with dignity and fairness and...
by Corina Milic | Dec 1, 2016
CHAI was founded in 2002 with the transformational goal to help save the lives of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world. By 2005, when CHAI began working on pediatric HIV/AIDS, children were being left behind at an astonishing rate: only one...
by Corina Milic | Nov 30, 2016
London, 30 November 2016 – UNITAID and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) today announced a three-year project to speed the introduction of new, optimal HIV drugs, and make them more available and affordable. The US$34 million investment is expected to be a...
by Corina Milic | Nov 23, 2016
In a small village in rural east-central Uganda, baby Josephin is happily babbling to her mother Kevina and crawling around the yard. She has recovered well from a bout of bad diarrhea that she was suffering from just one day ago. Josephin is one of the lucky ones....
by Corina Milic | Nov 14, 2016
CHAI supports national governments to expand high-quality care and treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS. CHAI negotiates reduced prices for antiretrovirals (ARVs) on behalf of members of its procurement consortium. See the 2016 CHAI ARV Reference Price List...
by Corina Milic | Nov 11, 2016
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death for children globally, taking more lives annually than HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. It is estimated that a child dies from pneumonia every 35 seconds. Pneumonia, a severe respiratory infection in which a child’s...
by Corina Milic | Oct 25, 2016
A Neglected Disease in Africa Sub-Saharan Africa’s cancer burden is significant and growing. In 2012, there were an estimated 626,400 new cases of cancer and 447,700 deaths from cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization projects that by 2030,...
by Corina Milic | Oct 21, 2016
Sixteen years ago, the 13th International AIDS Conference (IAS) convened in Durban, South Africa, to “break the silence” on the millions of preventable AIDS-related deaths occurring around the world. The summit was notable as it laid out the clear case that HIV causes...
by Corina Milic | Oct 21, 2016
CHAI’s ARV Market Report provides a global perspective on the ARV marketplace in low- and middle-income countries in 2015 and outlines CHAI’s expectations on how the market will evolve over the next five years. See the ARV Market Report here.
by Corina Milic | Sep 30, 2016
In Malawi, innovative models have been developed to optimize the efficiency of HIV service delivery in order to scale up access to treatment. In particular, three key models of differentiated care have emerged: multi-month prescriptions; fast-track drug refills; and...
