How Immediate Testing of HIV Progression Leads to Better Treatment
Until recently, many low- and middle-income countries were not able to provide HIV treatment to all patients due to the high cost of medication and treatment was reserved for only the sickest individuals. Decisions about whether or not to initiate patients on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) were often based on how far a patient’s disease...
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Synthesizing evidence on point-of-care CD4 testing to inform World Health Organization Guidelines
CD4 cell count is an important diagnostic test to manage HIV-positive patients in low- and middle-income countries. CD4 testing is used to prioritize patients for treatment in settings where treatment is not accessible to all, monitor patients on treatment where viral load testing is not available, and monitor and manage patients with advanced HIV disease...
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Policy Brief: Zambia’s Community Health Assistants
Recognizing that Universal health coverage (UHC) cannot be realized without an adequate health workforce, CHAI along with the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), have been supporting the Zambian Ministry of Health since 2010 to recruit, train and deploy a motivated community-based health workforce. Known as Community Health Assistants (CHAs), these workers have been...
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Expanding Access to HIV Prevention and Treatment
Since 2002, CHAI has worked to increase access to HIV drugs and diagnostics in the developing world with the transformational goal of saving lives. Through collaboration with a broad coalition of partners, the Interagency Task Team on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers, and Children (IATT) has helped support the...
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CHAI Financials: 2016
View the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. and Subsidiaries’ 2016 Consolidated Financial Statements.
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HIV Mid-Year Market Memo 2017
CHAI’s first-ever HIV Mid-Year Market Memo is an informational brief that covers the latest trends in the HIV space since the publication of CHAI’s annual ARV Market Report in October 2016. See the HIV Mid-Year Market Memo here. See the 2016 ARV Market Report here.
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Interventions to Improve Maternal and Child Survival and Prevent Transmission of HIV from Mother-to-Child
Addressing the gaps in HIV service delivery is critical to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Even small gains in maternal retention on antiretroviral therapy (ART) can result in large gains in the number of children born HIV-free and significantly improves the health and survival of women and children. With timely identification of HIV status among...
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Placing Health Workers Where They Are Needed Most
Health workers are the backbone of any health system. When the health workforce is not aligned with demand at a particular facility it can lead to long patient waiting times, poor quality or lack of services, and overworked health workers. While many countries are aware that they face a general shortage of health workers, it...
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Improving health outcomes by optimizing allocation of health workers
The provision of health services requires a sufficient number of well-trained health workers, but many countries currently face severe health workforce shortages. In the face of these gaps, it is important for governments to be able to allocate the health workers that they do employ to the areas where they are needed most. Beginning in...
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Giving stable HIV treatment patients a 3-month prescription refill of ARV drugs at one time reduces the need for frequent trips to the clinic
Arriving early in the morning to receive their HIV medications and beat the crowds, patients visiting resource-limited health facilities are often greeted by long lines. This was a problem experienced in some of the busiest health centers in Lusaka, Zambia, in 2014. While Zambia’s rate of HIV/AIDS prevalence is declining (12.9% in 2015 compared to...
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