“I started working with GHI in 2012 after my undergraduate school. This was my 1 year of practicum training before pursuing a masters degree. It was between finding a job in the USA or coming back home in Malawi to get that experience….

On a recent trip to Kenya, Brad, Sarah & Lydia got a precious glimpse of the hope and freedom that has come from this work that you are such a vital part of. Your generosity has helped ensure that over 120,000 HIV+ mothers and their babies have received the follow up care they need. Each of those numbers represents a person, an individual, and last month, four of those mothers came to personally thank the people behind the HITSystem.

Emmy and her husband lived with their children in the South Rift Valley in Kenya. They were a lot like any other family; “Life was good,” Emmy says.

This month, the HITSystem was featured in The Lancet HIV, the leading peer reviewed journal shaping the study of HIV/AIDS today. The publication is the culmination of a 5-year clinical trial that evaluated the effectiveness of the HITSystem in HIV Early Infant Diagnosis (EID). The article is a joint venture between the University of Kansas Medical Center and Global Health Innovations. We have summarized some of the most notable outcomes from the study below.

This summer, I had an invaluable internship experience with GHI. I had amazing co-workers who constantly went above and beyond, a fellow intern whom I could also learn from, and a boss/mentor who always shared practical advice to prepare me for my future career in the field of global health.

In Swahili, the word UHAI means LIFE. 

We met Beatrice in Nairobi’s Mathare Slum in 2010, and she shared her incredible story with us.

It was a story that sounded tragically familiar — but Beatrice gave us the chance to become a part of it and to change its ending for the better.