Clinton Health Access Initiative

07/18/2025

🚨 CHAI at | July 21–23 | Kampala

CHAI is proud to join the inaugural Triple Elimination Conference in Africa 2025, to exchange lessons and shape the future of integrated approaches to end vertical transmission of , and among pregnant women and newborns.

💡Theme: “Unifying Actions, Transforming Futures: Achieving Triple Elimination in Africa by 2030”

Catch us at the following as both presenters and panelists:

🔹 Plenary | July 21
Funding the Fight Through Resource Mobilization for Triple Elimination
● Discussion on innovative financing mechanisms, public-private partnerships, and global funding commitments — Grace Singh, Senior Manager, Viral Hepatitis Program

🔹 Plenary | July 22
Integrating HIV, Hepatitis B, and Syphilis Control Programs
● Sharing best practices for integrating services and maximizing existing health system infrastructure — Dr Emmanuel Olal, Senior Associate, Uganda Hepatitis Program

Other session highlights:

🔹 Plenary | July 21
Improving Access to Essential Treatments to Accelerate Triple Elimination
● MoH representatives from Nigeria and Rwanda will discuss strategies they have employed with CHAI’s support to access high-quality, affordable diagnostics and treatment options for triple elimination

To join us virtually, you can register here: https://ow.ly/bok750WrJ27

🌍 This conference is hosted in Uganda, where CHAI is a proud partner to the Ministry of Health to scale hepatitis B PMTCT services, integrated into routine ANC and immunization.

We look forward to engaging with country leaders, donors, and technical partners to ensure every pregnancy is protected and no child is born with a preventable infection.

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07/17/2025

CHAI is excited to be convening two sessions at on Sunday, July 20, sharing country-led experiences and applied research that highlight opportunities to strengthen health systems through smarter financing and delivery:

🕣 08:30–12:00 | The Role of Digital Public Infrastructure in Strengthening Public Financial Management

Drawing on work across 16 countries—including India, Ethiopia, and Burkina Faso—this session explores how digital public infrastructure can help governments address persistent public financial management challenges that affect health service delivery.

🔗 Session details: https://healtheconomics.confex.com/healtheconomics/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/3196

🕥 10:45–12:15 | Efficiency, Prioritization, and Vaccine Portfolio Optimization

With growing fiscal pressure, countries are looking for ways to improve value for money in immunization. Hear how Kenya, Nigeria, and Indonesia are using evidence to drive vaccine prioritization, product choices, and integration across programs.

🔗 Session details: https://immunizationeconomics.org/efficiency-prioritization-and-vaccine-portfolio-optimization-optimization-experiences-best-practices-ihea-2025-day-2/

📍 Bali International Convention Centre.

07/16/2025

📊At , Dr. Tunde Ojo, National Coordinator of Nigeria’s Mental Health Program (pictured) and CHAI Nigeria Sr. Associate Muhammad-Mujtaba Akanmu presented important research on mental health challenges facing young people with HIV:

- 38% showed signs of depression
- 19% had anxiety symptoms
- Females were more likely to experience anxiety
- Depression rates increased with age
- Most cases were mild and moderate in severity - and can be readily managed by trained non-specialists

💡 The takeaway from their presentation? Mental health support needs to be built into HIV care, especially for young people who are already navigating so much.

This study highlights why we can’t treat physical and mental health separately - they’re deeply connected.

Thank you to the Nigerian Ministry of Health and for supporting this research.

07/16/2025

CHAI is presenting over 25 pieces of research at , adding to the body of evidence that this community of researchers, advocates, and policy makers is building in the fight against AIDS.

Over the next two days we will be sharing two oral abstracts, and our poster presentations are available online through to the end of the conference ➡️ bit.ly/46Qo15w

⏲️ July 16, 3:27pm Lesotho's advanced HIV disease program
ℹ️ Lesotho implemented a comprehensive Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) treatment program using a hub-and-spoke model, supported by CHAI and the Ministry of Health. The phased approach increased AHD service access from 7% in 2021 to 100% nationwide coverage by 2024.

⏲️ July 17, 12:42pm Malawi data quality improvement pilot results
ℹ️ Malawi is aiming to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B by 2027, but challenges in data reporting have hindered progress, particularly in high-prevalence districts like hashtag . UNICEF supported Malawi's National AIDS Commission and Chikwawa District Council to pilot an intervention improving HIV, syphilis, and hep B data quality for pregnant women and infants across ten health facilities. The intervention improved data completeness from 93% to 99.1% and achieved Chikwawa's highest-ever syphilis testing rate of 99% among pregnant women.

IAS - International AIDS Society

07/15/2025

Unitaid and partners announce new financing agreement with Synergy Gases Ltd to boost medical oxygen access in sub-Saharan Africa

07/15/2025

Today at CHAI is discussing long-acting PrEP. The HIV response faces both unprecedented opportunities and significant challenges—breakthrough prevention tools are finally here, but funding cuts and delivery barriers threaten to limit their impact.

⏲️ 12:15pm: Lessons learned from early adopters of long-acting PrEP
ℹ️ We have powerful new HIV prevention tools like long-acting PrEP that could dramatically cut transmission rates, but having the products isn't enough. We must overcome delivery obstacles, funding gaps, and infrastructure problems to actually get these life-saving treatments to the people who need them—which is why this session brings together governments, civil society groups, donors, and others to share lessons learned and discuss innovative approaches.

⏲️ 12:15pm Ensuring HIV commodity access and service delivery in a changing funding landscape
ℹ️After recent US government cuts to foreign aid, countries and international partners have scrambled to find creative ways to keep HIV services and treatments affordable and accessible. This session brings together government officials and civil society leaders to share what's working and how to scale up the most promising strategies to protect HIV testing, treatment, and prevention programs from further disruption.

⏲️ 3:23pm Assessing the impact of USG funding cuts on Zambia's HIV programing
ℹ️This oral abstract session highlights Zambia's impressive progress against HIV, cutting infection rates in half between 2016 and 2021. But new data shows that funding disruptions have hit prevention programs hard. While HIV treatment remained stable with less than 1% decline, oral PrEP initiations and male circumcision services have plummeted between early 2024 and early 2025.

⏲️ 6pm Integrating LA PrEP: Lessons learned and conditions for access
ℹ️This session will reflect on lessons learned from the delivery of injectables and other PrEP options and implications for cost-effective roll out of lenacapavir.

Unitaidd IAS - International AIDS Society

07/14/2025

is officially underway in Kigali, Rwanda! The world's largest gathering on HIV research and applications brings together global leaders at a critical moment when political and financial challenges are reshaping the HIV response across Africa and beyond.

CHAI will be participating throughout the week, contributing to conversations about sustaining progress and innovation in the fight against HIV. Follow along as we share insights from this year's conference.

Today we are participating in 3 sessions:

⏲️9:30am - Adapting AHD programs amid a changing global funding landscape
ℹ️Despite major advances in HIV treatment, 630K people still died from AIDS in 2023, with children facing especially high risks when funding for life-saving programs is under threat. This session explores how countries are working with partners like Unitaid to keep advanced HIV disease programs running strong through community leadership and innovative care models, even as financial support becomes more challenging to secure.

⏲️1pm - Rwanda’s ground breaking achievements in HIV response
ℹ️Rwanda has become a global HIV/AIDS success story by achieving the ambitious UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets ahead of schedule, proving that strong political commitment and community-centered approaches can transform public health outcomes. This session explores Rwanda's winning strategies and partnerships to inspire other countries to replicate these life-saving practices in their own fight against HIV.

⏲️3pm - Strengthening HIV prevention systems and advancing innovation in Malawi
ℹ️Malawi is showing other countries how to strengthen fragmented health systems to introduce HIV prevention tools like long-acting injectable PrEP through strong national and district leadership. This session features Malawi leaders sharing their innovative approaches to building resilient HIV prevention systems that can sustain new breakthroughs and expand prevention choices for communities.

IAS - International AIDS Society

07/13/2025

On the final day of our Seven Perspectives video series, meet Carmen Pérez Casas. As funding cuts strain HIV programs and service disruptions increase the risk of advanced HIV disease (AHD), ’s investments in are more vital than ever. In this video, Carmen shares why projects like THRIVE, led by CHAI in partnership with AFROCAB and Penta, are essential to meet this critical moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdqj5hPNKXE

Join us tomorrow at our THRIVE Satellite at to hear from the network of stakeholders who are ensuring the needs of with AHD are at the center of the response at 9:30am in Room MH3.

The THRIVE project, funded by Unitaid and led by CHAI in collaboration with AFROCAB and PENTA, supports country-led strategies for building resilient systems...

07/12/2025

As funding challenges threaten service delivery, the Ministry of Health- Uganda is charting a sustainable path forward through a more integrated approach. Today, Dr. Proscovia Namuwenge shares how strong collaboration, supported by the Unitaid-funded THRIVE project, is helping sustain and strengthen care for those most at risk amidst these changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgC8eygcvd0

Join us in just two days to hear from Dr. Proscovia and others at our THRIVE satellite session at IAS 2025 on July 14 at 9:30am in Room MH3



The THRIVE project, funded by Unitaid and led by CHAI in collaboration with AFROCAB and PENTA, supports country-led strategies for building resilient systems...

07/10/2025

Hear from Dr. Peter Akonyera, a dedicated healthcare worker in Uganda, as he shares the critical importance of timely diagnosis for pediatric patients living with advanced HIV disease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK42hmcl6c8

Join us at our satellite session at on July 14 at 9:30am in Room MH3 to learn more about the -supported THRIVE project, led by CHAI in partnership with AFROCAB and Penta, and how we’re supporting country-led strategies to scale access to the AHD package of care for adults and children.

The THRIVE project, funded by Unitaid and led by CHAI in collaboration with AFROCAB and PENTA, supports country-led strategies for building resilient systems...

07/10/2025

📌We are excited to announce that CHAI will be presenting at the 13th Conference on .

If you're keen to learn more about our work, here is a list of all the sessions CHAI staff will be participating in: https://ow.ly/zfN150Wnyp8

07/09/2025

When funding disruptions struck earlier this year, community outreach services—including those relied on by Night, an ART client in Uganda—came to a standstill. Fortunately, during her home visits, THRIVE AFROCAB AHD Community Facilitator Sarah recognized Night’s urgent needs and helped reconnect her to life-saving care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32gNG83cSHA

Join us at our satellite at on July14 at 9:30 am in Room MH3 to learn more about the stakeholders who are ensuring the needs of PLHIV with AHD are at the center of the response under the Unitaid-supported THRIVE Project.

The THRIVE project, funded by Unitaid and led by CHAI in collaboration with AFROCAB and PENTA, supports country-led strategies for building resilient systems...