Funded by USAID, CHAI, under the EpiC Project, conducted a comprehensive assessment of oxygen availability in #Namibia between March 2023 and March 2024. The project conducted on-site assessments of 18 health facilities, quantification analysis of medical oxygen needs in 28 health facilities to assess their current and potential oxygen systems and produced a comprehensive report documenting the current situation and investment options for improving oxygen supply. The assessment concluded that the local production of LOX is crucial for affordability and economic viability and that optimizing existing PSA operations and medical piping systems are also essential for overall sustainability. Learn more: https://ow.ly/sVBj50SKQ7C #InvestInOxygen #HealthSystemsStrengthening #PrimaryHealthcare #UniversalHealthCoverage
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CHAI's mission is to save lives and improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health systems. Today, CHAI operates in 36 countries across the world and more than 80 countries have access to CHAI-negotiated price reductions, vaccines, medical devices, and diagnostics. Current programs at CHAI include HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Maternal, Newborn and Reproductive Health, Diarrhea and Pneumonia, Nutrition, Vaccines, Health Financing, Health Workforce, and Cancer. CHAI also has a number of experts working across the organization to help shape global markets, to negotiate lower prices for drugs and health tools, provide clinical support and knowledge, and utilize the latest and best data and analytics to shape decision-making. We are actively recruiting across a number of programs. Please visit www.clintonhealthaccess.org/join-chai.
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Starting soon ➡️Unlocking solutions: Navigating complexity in advanced HIV disease with innovative use of existing tools for better care Join us for highlights on new developments in global normative guidance from World Health Organization on advanced HIV disease, including an overview of the global research landscape. This will be followed by presentations about ongoing Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) projects from key implementing partners such as CHAI, Aurum Institute, and PENTA. The session will also include an implementation example from a ministry of health. This will be followed by an interactive expert panel discussion with key global stakeholders, including representatives of civil society. The key message is the urgent need to use the existing tools to ensure that AIDS-related mortality can be greatly reduced so that the high level target of ending AIDS related deaths by 2030 may be achieved. #AIDS2024 #PutPeopleFirst International AIDS Society Unitaid World Health Organization London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine PAHO FOUNDATION - PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION FOUNDATION The Aurum Institute Penta Group
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We head into Day 4 of #AIDS2024 still digesting all the news that came out of the conference yesterday. A new HIV preventive strategy is sparking excitement and some controversay https://t.ly/Iz5IJ as activists demand to immediately begin the voluntary licsencing process to allow affordable, generic production of the twice-yearly injectable. https://t.ly/6P8n-. We also learned more about the "next Berlin patient", the seventh person known to be cured of HIV. https://t.ly/kTL7B. Today, CHAI is looking forward to sharing more of our work: ➡️Unlocking solutions: Navigating complexity in advanced HIV disease with innovative use of existing tools for better care – Early Updates: CHAI THRIVE Project + Panel Discussion: What can we do better for advanced HIV disease? Thursday, July 25 at 6:00pm CEST / 12:00pm EDT ➕ Nine pieces of research featured at the Poster Exhibition, with findings from colleagues' work in #Mozambique #Nigeria #SouthAfrica #Uganda and #Zambia International AIDS Society
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📢CHAI invites interested and capable vendors to submit expressions of interest to supply an affordable, quality-assured solution to accelerate widespread access to CD4 testing, cryptococcus infection, or histoplasmosis infection screening in low-and middle-income countries. 📅 Closing date: August 2, 2024 🌐 Link: https://ow.ly/HaTv50So4tm
Invitation to submit Expressions of Interest (EOI) to provide interventions to grow capacity and increase sustainable access to CD4 testing and Opportunistic Infection (OI) screening - Clinton Health Access Initiative
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If you live in a high-income country, even a single new child HIV infection is a mark of failure. In other parts of the world, it can still be a death sentence. But we now have the testing, treatment, and prevention tools to prevent these deaths: 🌟safe and highly effective drugs for treatment and prevention 🌟infant preventive drugs and same-day testing 🌟Strawberry-flavored drugs that are dissolved in water and self-testing options And, as we heard during the DTG Story session at #AIDS2024, pediatric DTG provided many lessons to countries, manufacturers, donors, and NGOs like CHAI to apply to new product introduction moving forward. Lessons we are already applying, as CHAI's Melynda Watkins, Senior Director, Product Development and Regulatory Affairs, updated the conference at the New Horizons session. With Unitaid funding, CHAI partnered with Laurus Labs Limited to develop and register a best-in-class second-line treatment for children, DRV/r, which was filed for US FDA review in June and is expected to receive approval before the end of the year. This is a game-changer. Yet despite progress made in reducing HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths among children, a new report released this week by the #GlobalAllianceEndingAIDS in Children by 2030 shows that an urgent scale up of HIV services in countries worst affected by the pandemic is required to end AIDS by 2030. Now is the time to invest in the tools countries need to stop the tens of thousands of deaths happening each year. USAID's Christine Malati called the global community to action at the close of the New Horizons session: "We have the tools. There is no excuse." #PutPeopleFirst #PutChildrenFirst International AIDS Society The ELMA Philanthropies UNICEF
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As we head into Day 3 of #AIDS2024 we are focused on children and adolescents living with HIV. Kids are routinely left behind, sometimes by decades, when it comes to treatment. But in recent years, we have seen innovative new models applied to regulatory approval processes, collaborations between innovator and generic drug manufacturing, and community-driven demand that has paved the way for the fastest ever rollout of medications specifically formulated for children. Yet 76,000 children still die from AIDS each year. We must ramp up testing, bolster caregiver leadership, and intensify focus on mental health and social support to save lives. We have the tools the end AIDS in children, as a new progress report on the #GlobalAllianceEndAIDS in Children by 2030 reinforces. Now let's use them. Read the report ➡️https://lnkd.in/gBcHbQGB #PutChildrenFirst #AIDS2024 International AIDS Society UNICEF The ELMA Philanthropies
Transforming Vision Into Reality: The 2024 Global Alliance Progress Report on Ending AIDS in Children by 2030 | Children & AIDS
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Starting soon at #AIDS2024 ➡️ Treatment failure management in children – New Horizons Advancing Pediatric Care Collaborative The New Horizons (NH) Advancing Pediatric Care Collaborative was launched in 2014 by JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES OF Johnson & Johnson, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, national ministries of health and other international, national, and regional partners. NH was designed to support access to Darunavir and/or Etravirine donated by J&J as well as build healthcare capacity to manage pediatric treatment failure in children and adolescents. Ten years on we are celebrating NH and the successes, lessons learned, and tools developed through the collaborative. International AIDS Society
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Today dolutegravir, or DTG, based regimens have been adpoted in 120+ low- and middle-income countries and are used by 90% of people living with HIV who are on antiretroviral treatment. DTG is not only cost-effective, it leads to rapid suppression of viral load, has fewer side effects, and better protects against drug resistance than other regimens. The story of how we got here is one of partnership. Partnership between drug manufacturers, nonprofits like CHAI, governments, the World Health Organization and funders like Unitaid. But as Kenly Sikwese reminded us at yesterday's #AIDS2024 session on the subject, what made this story unique--and uniquely successful--was the partnership with communities of people living with HIV. Communities pushed for pricing agreements and familiarized the treatment locally. As Kenly said, "by the end of 2015, more community members had heard of DTG than clinicians!" Communities of people living with HIV have been the drivers behind uptake of DTG over the last decade. There are many lessons to be learned from the DTG story, and the role of community is a critical one. You can learn more about community partnership around DTG here: https://ow.ly/fboe50SHXN7 International AIDS Society #PutPeopleFirst ViiV Healthcare Medicines Patent Pool Carolyn Amole Zack Panos HIV I-BASE #AfroCAB
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We head into Day 2 of #AIDS2024 on the heels of a new report from UNAIDS that indicates we can still end the AIDS pandemic by 2030--but only if leaders boost resources and protect human rights. https://ow.ly/bkQy50SHt5t Here are sessions in which CHAI will be participating: ➡️Advanced HIV disease: Hiding in plain sight – Improving advanced HIV disease identification among clients failing antiretroviral therapy: an implementation partner-led initiative in Uganda Tuesday, July 23 at 3:00pm CEST / 9:00am EDT ➡️Treatment failure management in children – New Horizons Advancing Pediatric Care Collaborative Tuesday, July 23 at 6:00pm CEST / 12:00pm EDT ➕ The Poster Exhibition opens today and runs through Thursday with over 20 pieces of research contributed by CHAI colleagues
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