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I grew up privileged. Access to clean water, food, health care, and education was never an issue during my childhood in California. While we were never wealthy from an American perspective, we always had enough to meet our basic needs. This privilege is something most of the world’s population lacks, and I am mindful that...
Read moreIt was the spring of 1998, while working as a clinician in Lesotho, that I first realized the terrible impact that HIV would have on my country. Patients were growing sicker by the day, and at times I thought I might not even have any more patients to care for within a few years. We...
Read moreThis webinar, the second in a two-part series, highlights tools and resources in CHAI’s HIV New Product Introduction Toolkit. The toolkit provides ministries of health and implementing partners with the tools necessary to evaluate the adoption and introduction of new HIV products in their local context. This webinar highlighted two consumption monitoring tools, including: 1)...
Read moreThe HIV/AIDS community received good news ahead of the 2017 International AIDS Society (IAS) meeting in Paris: for the first time ever, more than 50 percent of people living with HIV were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the end of 2016 and AIDS-related deaths have halved since 2005. If this trend continues, the world will...
Read moreNegotiated pricing agreements have lowered costs and will improve access to quality treatment for people living with HIV New York – A breakthrough pricing agreement has been announced which will accelerate the availability of the first affordable, generic, single-pill HIV treatment regimen containing dolutegravir (DTG) to public sector purchasers in low- and middle-income countries...
Read moreNational HIV treatment programs are preparing for big shifts in their national treatment guidelines and patient regimens. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2016 guidelines included a number of antiretroviral (ARV) medications that are more effective, tolerable and affordable (some of which are now available), in addition to optimal pediatric formulations which improve upon limited treatment...
Read moreAs we recognize World Hepatitis Day this year, there is hope for millions of people living with chronic hepatitis around the world. New, directly acting antiviral (DAA) medications are providing a cure to people infected with the disease. In Vietnam, one of the countries with highest rates of hepatitis C (HCV) infection in the world,...
Read moreLesotho is a small, landlocked country surrounded by South Africa with a population of about 2 million people. It also has the second highest prevalence of HIV in the world, with 23 percent of the population infected. This high HIV prevalence is a key contributing factor in Lesotho having one of the lowest life expectancies...
Read moreMarket access agreements advance growing ACS-led effort to significantly improve cancer care in six sub-Saharan African countries The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) today announced two separate groundbreaking market access agreements with Pfizer Inc. and Cipla Inc. to expand access to sixteen essential cancer treatment medications, including chemotherapies, in...
Read moreUntil 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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