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What We’ve Accomplished

CHAI has made tremendous progress in providing access to lifesaving treatments for those living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world. Some of CHAI’s most noteworthy accomplishments include:

Access Programs

• 4 million people have benefitted from medicines purchased under CHAI agreements, representing nearly half of all people living with HIV and on treatment in developing countries.
• 70 countries have access to CHAI's negotiated prices for ARV drugs and diagnostics, representing more than 92% of people living with HIV globally. 
• CHAI has negotiated breakthrough ARV price reductions with 8 suppliers on over 40 formulations and negotiated significant price reductions with 12 suppliers for 16 HIV/AIDS diagnostic tests. CHAI’s successive agreements have reduced the price of first-line treatments by 70%, pediatric medicines by 90%, and second-line HIV/AIDS medicines by a cumulative reduction of 30% in low income countries.
• CHAI’s first malaria price negotiations reduced the price of one ACT, an effective malaria drug, by 30% and reduced price volatility of artmesinin, the plant extract in ACTs, by up to 80%.
• CHAI initiated a pilot subsidy on ACTs in Tanzania which reduced the price in targeted areas by 95% and increased uptake by approximately 45% for people of all ages — 62% for children under 5.

Country Programs

• Over the last three years, the collaboration between UNITAID and CHAI has helped to increase access to ARVs among children and second-line patients by making drugs more widely available and improving market dynamics. The partnership currently provides ARVs to over 300,000 patients in 42 countries, including nearly 200,000 children.
• CHAI has launched 8 country-specific programs to bring care and treatment to rural communities , home to 70-80% of the developing world’s population. These rural areas often lack access to basic primary health care, including HIV/AIDS treatment.
• CHAI has supported country-specific strategies to increase human resources for health in 9 out of our 10 partner countries in Africa, with interventions including training, curriculum development, clinical mentoring, and recruiting.
• CHAI is launching a new initiative focused on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in more than 6 countries. The program focuses on testing all pregnant women, increasing access to primary health and community-based outreach services, providing effective treatment, and offering safe infant feeding choices.
• CHAI worked with the government of Malawi to help redesign its training approach for laboratory assistance from a three-year diploma course to a two-year certificate program, reducing the time required to deploy 84 new professionals to the nation’s labs in rural areas.
• CHAI assisted the government of Papua New Guinea in the Eastern Highlands in implementing a rural health care program. Early results show the number of pregnant women being tested in the district increased from 50% to more than 90%, while the number lost to follow-up after testing decreased from 74% to 0%.