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	Saving Infants’ Lives in Kenya in Partnership with Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

Diagnosis of HIV in infants under 18 months of age born of HIV-positive mothers is a time-critical service. Unless a child is quickly identified as being HIV-positive and put on treatment immediately, the likelihood of being alive at age two is less than 50%.

HP and CHAI are working together on the Early Infants Diagnosis (EID) project in Kenya to ensure that infants born of HIV-positive mothers are tested for HIV. HIV-positive infants receive anti retroviral therapy (ART) early to prevent the premature death of thousands of infants annually from AIDS transmitted from their parents.

HP is providing the IT infrastructure and technical expertise to test around 70,000 infants in 2011 that will deliver test results much quicker over GSM to rural areas, which will in turn save children’s lives. Installation of this new technology will reduce the delivery time of lab results to rural areas from more than two months, to just two or three days.

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), founded in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other illnesses.

Currently, residents of developing countries often cannot afford and do not have access to systems that provide basic health care, including medicines for diseases that are preventable, treatable or curable.  This is where CHAI intervenes - by partnering with governments and working with other NGOs to provide solutions to the biggest challenges impeding effective health care in developing countries, such as improving market dynamics for medicines and diagnostics; lowering prices for treatment; and accelerating access to life‐saving technologies.