Clinton Health Access Initiative

There is no treatment for Bundibugyo Ebola today. Clinical trials for the first potential therapeutics just started and results won't arrive for 18+ months. Even then, history shows us approval doesn't mean access: countries typically wait months or sometimes years before they can actually deploy life-saving treatments. Given the Ebola cases spreading across the DRC and Uganda right now, we can't afford that delay.

We also can't afford diagnostic delays. This outbreak went undetected for weeks because there were no diagnostics able to detect Bundibugyo Ebola, allowing cases to spread unchecked. New diagnostics are now being urgently developed and validated, and will be critical for scaling case detection and contact tracing in the coming weeks.

It's why Unitaid announced US$3.4M last week to accelerate access to both promising diagnostics and medicines. And why CHAI's work is at the center of it: forecasting demand, securing supply chains, and positioning access pathways. So the moment efficacy data arrives—for treatments and diagnostics alike—countries can deploy these tools immediately.

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AI is moving faster than almost any technology we've seen in global health but speed alone won't make it work for everyone.

Most AI tools today are built on data, languages, and infrastructure from high-income countries. That means a developer building a health tool in Ghana or Mozambique is often starting from scratch—no benchmarks for their patient population, no relevant data, no standards to build on.

That's why CHAI, the Agency Fund, and Endless Global have launched the AI Commons for Global Health, a shared initiative born out of a convening at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, bringing together innovators, frontier AI labs, funders, and global health practitioners around one question: what will it take for AI to actually improve health outcomes everywhere, not just where the data and money already are?

Four working groups are underway, building open resources for:
🔹 Data exchange: a fair marketplace for low- and middle-income country health data, with privacy tools built in
🔹 Clinical decision support architecture: a free blueprint so innovators don't have to start from zero
🔹 Evaluations: practical tools to test whether AI tools really work in context
🔹 Procurement: reusable guidance for governments buying AI solutions

We're at the beginning, and this will only be as strong as the community that shapes it. If you're building AI for low-resource health settings, working on evaluation or data governance, advising governments, or funding this space, we want to hear from you.

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A year after global HIV funding was upended, new data shows the damage is still mounting and across almost every key indicator there is no rebound.

CHAI tracked what happened to HIV services across countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia in 2025, measuring against the year before. The picture is consistent:

⬇️ 42% fewer people started on oral HIV prevention in 10 countries
⬇️ 5.8M fewer HIV tests run in 8 countries
⬇️ 39K fewer adults started on treatment in 8 countries
⬇️ 26K fewer children on treatment in 9 countries

Full details in CHAI’s June 2026 HIV Market Impact Memo, published in partnership with Unitaid: https://ow.ly/EP0u50Z8RxS

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Behind every wheelchair is a child who can now move through the world differently. Behind every child is a system that made it possible.

This , we are sharing our progress: 300 children fitted with a wheelchair through CHAI's work with governments in Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. By the end of August, we expect to more than double that number.

But the story isn't the wheelchair. It's what's underneath:

Assistive products are now a permanent line item in national health supply chains. Providers have been trained to assess, fit, and follow up with each child. And in Rwanda, local governments are covering the cost of transport to and from health facilities, so that getting to a fitting appointment isn't the barrier between a child and a wheelchair.

This is what it looks like when governments own the pathway from screening to provision, and AT moves from one-off support to routine public health care.

Full program results follow in September. In Nairobi? Come meet with us this week at the inABLE Inclusive Africa and IAPB IN SIGHT Conferences taking place in the city.