5 Questions with Achieng’ Aling’
Our monthly check-in with staff from around the world. Learn more about the people who work at CHAI.
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Annual Report 2021
CHAI's 2021 Annual Report is out now. In it, we recognize the incredible efforts of our staff during a difficult year.
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Pediatric care outside the capital is hard to come by in Kenya, but a new fellowship program brings training home
CHAI Kenya team is helping the Ministry of Health, Kenya to address the gap for pediatric sub-specialists in hard-to-reach communities through the development of a pediatric training fellowship.
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Investing in nurses and midwives to achieve universal health coverage in Zambia and Malawi
To commemorate International Nursing Day 2022, we highlight progress to develop the health workforce in Malawi and Zambia. We also share the experiences of nurses in both countries.
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How trained midwives are saving lives in rural Zambia
During this International Day of the Midwife, we celebrate all those working to save the lives of women and babies by supporting safer pregnancies and deliveries— workers such as Paul Bwalya, a midwife and trained mentor working in Zambia’s Northern Province. Paul is a nurse/midwife practitioner, nurse manager, and lead clinical mentor in Kasama, the...
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New publication describes evidence-based strategic planning for the health workforce in Malawi
Using modeling and analyses to inform targeted investments in human resources for health. A strong and well-distributed health workforce is essential to providing quality health services. However, too often, the health workforce is often insufficient to meet the need, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Human resource costs often represent a large portion of public...
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World Health Worker Week: Building the health workforce back better
In commemoration of World Health Worker Week 2022, we highlight our work in Zambia to support the training, deployment of and optimization of the available workforce to ensure optimum health outcomes for all patients.
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Women who inspire us: International Women’s Day 2022
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, we are sharing the stories of women who have previously been featured on our blog. We are impressed by their impact and their resilience and think you will be too.
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Despite COVID-19: The pandemic’s impact on global health in 2021
As we revisit several of our most popular pieces of content from 2021, we focus not only on the challenges the pandemic has caused health programs across our partner countries, but also the resilience that our partners have shown in their response.
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Armed with a blood pressure machine, a community health worker saves a patient’s life in rural Zambia
Working with the Ministry of Health Zambia, CHAI, and other partners procured and distributed BP machines, thermometers, timers and bicycles to 600 community health assistants to support community surveillance of non-communicable diseases in Northern, Muchinga, Luapula, Copperbelt, North-Western, and Central provinces.
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