The
Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI – formerly the Clinton HIV/AIDS
Initiative) under the leadership of former President William Jefferson
Clinton III has worked since 2002 to reduce the pricing of HIV/AIDS
medicines and tests, and to work with governments around the world to
further turn the tide on the disease by building the systems needed to
deliver care and treatment.
In ten short
years, President Clinton and CHAI have made a substantial impact in the
fight against HIV/AIDS. This includes seven breakthrough price
reductions for drugs and diagnostics. Today, more than two million
people living with HIV/AIDS are on lifesaving treatment using medicines
purchased under CHAI agreements with manufacturers. This includes two
out of every three children who are on HIV/AIDS treatment. CHAI’s
greatest work is as a trusted partner to national governments whose
efforts have made possible tremendous gains in HIV/AIDS services and
public health. In addition to programs focused on HIV/AIDS, CHAI has
expanded in recent years to assist efforts to fight malaria, lowering
the prices and improving access to malaria medicines. CHAI has also
worked with a number of governments on improving the underlying systems
needed to deliver comprehensive health care.
In
2006, CHAI signed an MOU with the Malawi government to strengthen
health systems in the most challenged districts, provide national
support to HIV/AIDS drug pricing and programmatic work, support the
pilot and scale-up of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
(PMTCT) initiatives, expand access to ART for children, strengthen the
Malawi’s Lab system, and scale-up an integrated nutrition program for
children. CHAI’s support to Malawi has expanded to include a number of
additional programs: Human Resources for Health, Vaccines and Health
Financing. Recently, CHAI has entered into a memorandum of understanding
with the University of Malawi College of Medicine (CoM) to implement
research projects in its efforts to generate evidence-based policy
recommendation. As part of this new collaboration, CoM will jointly
implement a research project with CHAI to assess strategies to improve
mother-child retention on in PMTCT programmes. This project will inform
Ministry of Health policies and programmes aimed at achieving the
elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (eMTCT)
As
part of CoM and CHAI research collaboration, CHAI is seeking dynamic
and self-driven individuals of high integrity to support the
implementation of the eMTCT study.
Program Overview:
CHAI’s and College of Medicine’s new eMTCT Study combines approaches that address both facility and community-level barriers to access, retention and adherence to integrated ART/PMTCT/MNCH services for HIV-positive mothers and their infants. It will compare the impact and cost-effectiveness of using mother-infant-pair (MIP) clinics in improving retention of mother-infant pairs on PMTCT care and their quality of care. MIP clinics have been found to improve uptake of high-quality care, by providing integrated HIV and MNCH services under one roof, including education, counselling and psychosocial support for HIV positive mothers. This program is seeking operationally-focused and research oriented individuals to enable the research findings in implementation of this program to inform the national eMTCT strategy. |
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Based
in Mangochi, the M&E/Research Data Manager in collaboration with
the District Health Management Teams (DHMTs) and the College of Medicine
(COM) in Mangochi and Mulanje districts will:
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M&E/Research Database Manager, eMTCT Program in Malawi
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