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About CHAI
President Clinton has made finding solutions to global problems a major focus
of his more than thirty years in public service. After leaving office, he knew
he wanted to continue to address the inequalities in access to health care in
the developing world. In particular, he was struck by the disparity in access
to readily-available anti-retroviral treatment (ART) between high-income countries
and developing countries. President Clinton launched the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS
Initiative (CHAI) to expand access to life-saving medicines and help developing
countries systematize their approach to HIV/AIDS treatment.
Through your generous donations, the Clinton Foundation can help turn the tide
of the AIDS pandemic and bring quality healthcare to people in need around the
world.
Mission and Objectives
CHAI’s mission is to work with governments and other partners to increase
the availability of high-quality AIDS care and treatment for people in need.
We accomplish this by:
- lowering the cost of treatment
- providing strategic and targeted technical assistance where it is most
needed
- establishing major initiatives to enable widespread access to HIV-related
care.
We take a business-based and strategic approach to tackling the most significant
barriers to HIV/AIDS care and treatment, and hire capable, dedicated and passionate
people whose primary motivation is fulfilling our mission.
CHAI’s Operating Principles
As CHAI continues to grow and expand around the globe, our operating principles
remain at the core of all of our work, ensuring we maintain our identity and
intensity in everything we do.
- We understand that every day we delay, people die and every day we move
faster, we save lives. Therefore, we strive to rapidly accelerate care and
treatment in the short-term, while establishing self-sustaining and scalable
models for the future. We are flexible and work with minimal bureaucracy,
and spend our resources wisely.
- We serve people living with HIV/AIDS, with a particular focus on reaching
underserved and marginalized populations. We reach patients by partnering
with and serving governments to strengthen public health infrastructure. We
tackle the biggest challenges and forge paths for others to follow.
- We are guests in the countries we operate in. We work in a respectful way
with national governments and our local colleagues. Similarly, we work collaboratively—
not competitively— with other organizations, but do not let the pace
of others slow us down.
- We work with humility and quiet intensity.
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