• Transforming Ideas Into Action
• Combating Climate Change
• Treating HIV/AIDS & Malaria
  • Why Global Health
  • Our Approach
  • Access Programs
  • Malaria
  • Testing
  • Nutrition
  • Major Programs
  • Pediatric Program
  • Rural Programs
  • Human Resources for Health Programs
  • Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission
  • Operations Research
  • In-country Programs
  • What We've Accomplished
  • Information Center Resources
• Fighting Childhood Obesity
• Promoting Economic Opportunity
• Creating Sustainable Development in Africa
• Enabling Sustainable Development

CHAI’s Philosophy

The Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI)’s mission is to work with governments and other partners to increase access to high-quality care and treatment for HIV-positive people. CHAI has taken a business-based approach to increasing access to needed commodities, using economies of scale to negotiate lower prices for drugs and diagnostics. CHAI is also supporting governments to scale up their care and treatment programs, providing support through focused interventions, and providing strategic and targeted technical assistance where it is needed most.

Operating Principles

The employees of CHAI are capable, dedicate, and passionate people whose primary motivation is fulfilling this mission. As the organization grows and expands, these key operating principles remain at the core 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.