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"One of the biggest challenges we’ve seen in solar infrastructure is it falling into disrepair because maintenance costs weren’t properly funded"– Dr. Neil Buddy Shah, CHAI CEO This is what makes this week’s announcement different. The new partnership between Sweden and CHAI isn’t just another solar power initiative – it’s rethinking how we sustain healthcare infrastructure in Africa. Previous approaches focus on • Short-term grant funding focused on installation, not maintenance • Donor-funded pilots electrifying a handful of facilities, limiting impact • No sustainable financing for repairs and updates The new model focuses on • Blending private and public financing for greater impact • Building maintenance costs into the core funding structure by contracting private sector • Aggregating demand to achieve national-scale electrification and unlock economies of scale • Creating a framework that can be replicated across the continent This isn’t just about installing solar panels – it’s about ensuring they keep working for years to come, so healthcare workers can focus on what matters most: saving lives. Starting in South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, and Kenya, this innovative financing approach could revolutionize how we think about sustainable healthcare infrastructure. https://ow.ly/Wsgl50V5x3W

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The The Lancet Group Global Health Commission report on medical oxygen access is now out. The report presents new estimates on global medical oxygen need, the coverage gap, and the cost of closing it. Learn more:https://lnkd.in/dXHqvFSJ #InvestInOxygen #MedicalOxygenSecurity #OxygenAccess #HealthForAll

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📌A new paper from the Liberia Ministry of Health and CHAI demonstrates the effectiveness and feasibility of using short-term trainings to enhance the clinical capacity of mid-level healthcare cadres to deliver basic #oxygen therapy. These findings contribute to published insights from sub-Saharan Africa on oxygen training, in both an emergency and post-response setting. 📚Read the full paper here: https://ow.ly/uz9J50V7pEo #InvestInOxygen

📌Cefiderocol access project: Where are we now? In 2022, Shionogi and GARDP signed the first-ever voluntary license agreement for an antibiotic between a pharmaceutical company and a non-profit organization.* Now, more than two years down the line, what is the status of this project?🤔 Join CHAI's Melynda Watkins, Shionogi Inc. (U.S.)'s Monika Schneider, Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP)'s Rahul Dwivedi, and Orchid Pharma's Manish Dhanuka, March 28 at 3 pm Geneva time as they provide an update on the progress and challenges, and lessons the broader global health community can learn from the project. 🤓☝️Q&A to follow. ✍Register for the webinar: https://ow.ly/EIAU50V6J9k #Cefiderocol #AMR #Antimicrobialresistance *apart from TB medicines

Innovative partnership launched to power African healthcare facilities with solar energy 🌞 The Swedish government and CHAI have announced an innovative financing partnership to bring reliable electricity to thousands of healthcare facilities across South Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, and Kenya. Key highlights: • Tackles critical challenge: 25% of primary health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa lack electricity • Introduces sustainable financing model combining public and private funding • Ensures long-term maintenance of solar infrastructure • Focuses on supporting sexual and reproductive health services This initiative marks a significant step toward health equity in Africa, ensuring medical professionals can focus on saving lives rather than managing power outages. https://ow.ly/m3IC50V5tHT #GlobalHealth #SustainableEnergy #HealthcareInnovation #Africa Embassy of Sweden in Pretoria Neil Buddy Shah Håkan Juholt Raphael Hurley Samantha Diamond

👏💐CHAI congratulates Cambodia Country Director, Soleine Scotney (née Leprince-Ringuet) Scotney for receiving the Knight Grand Cross by the Royal Order of Cambodia in recognition of her leadership and CHAI's contributions in improving access to and quality of healthcare in Cambodia. 🎉 📌The Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Cambodia is one of the highest-ranking distinctions awarded to individuals in recognition of exceptional service to the Kingdom of Cambodia.

We are proud to have worked under the leadership of the Kenya Ministry of Health and the Division of Community Health Services to design and deploy a new, systems-integrated approach to digitizing campaigns. The innovative digital solution built on the broader digitization of community health provision in Kenya to make mass drug administration for Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) more efficient and equitable. The system ensured real-time data for the campaign up to the national level, informing a range of timely decisions and improving coverage, coordination, and service delivery. We are thankful for partnerships with the World Health Organization, Medic, AMREF, Lwala Community Alliance, Living Goods, Posh IT, and IntelliSOFT, and funding from the Gates Foundation, to bring forward this important work. Learn more: https://ow.ly/ZmyV50V2Gnj  #DigitalHealth #CampaignDigitization #IntegratedCampaignDigitization #NTDs #HealthInnovation

Mariama FATY, an associate based in #Senegal working with the Global Sexual & Reproductive Health Team, holds a bachelor's degree in law but felt drawn to social impact. And so she pivoted. "My love for social impact and women’s rights led me to CHAI, where I’m now focused on SRH commodity security." Read her blog in our monthly staff profile: https://ow.ly/tPGI50V3F3P #WorkingATCHAI #CareersAtCHAI #CHAIRecruiting #TeamCHAI