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The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), with funding from Global Affairs Canada and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, partnered with the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and the state governments of Bauchi, Cross River, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Lagos, Niger, and Rivers to support scale-up of zinc and...
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The IKEA Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) today announced two new four year grants totaling $16.8 million to continue work to reduce child mortality and provide access to lifesaving treatment for diarrhea and pneumonia in Madhya Pradesh, India and Kenya. The two grants, which began in January, build on CHAI’s work in...
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The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and IKEA Foundation, partnered with the Governments of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat to support scale-up of zinc and ORS, from 2012-2016. The program focused on ensuring consistent supply and dispensing practices with public and private health providers, and...
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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. She was able to access effective treatment...
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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 lungs fill with fluid, makes it difficult for them to absorb and exchange oxygen....
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See the video here. Diarrhea is the second leading killer of children worldwide, responsible for over 600,000 deaths each year. India bears a quarter of the global burden: nearly 400 children die of diarrhea each day. A highly effective treatment—zinc and oral rehydration salts (ORS)—is affordable and available, but too few children are receiving the...
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By the end of 2015, diarrhea remained a leading killer of children under 5. However, important progress has been made to scale up zinc and oral rehydration salts (ORS), which together are the recommended treatment for childhood diarrhea. Since the release of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Statement for Clinical Management of Acute Diarrhea in 2004, many...
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In remote Makhodia Village, Jhabua District in central India, a group of about 25 women gather in a small brightly painted room, protected from the heat of the midday sun inside the village health center. They are dressed in vibrant cloths–purples, blues, reds, and pinks that stand out against one another–and hold sleeping and sometimes...
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In Mathare Valley, one of Nairobi’s oldest and more impoverished slums, residents are crowded, and many lack access to basic services such as clean running water, electricity, and sanitation.
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