A young mother hospitalized for treatment for Drug Resistant TB on her way to a cure at St. Peter’s Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

How we work: from the grassroots to the lab

We put a human face on TB and AIDS and advocate for new solutions

TB, a curable disease, is the leading cause of death by an infectious disease in the world and has killed up to half of the +42 million AIDS patients who have died since the start of the pandemic.

  • We document the human toll of TB and TB/HIV co-infection and Drug Resistant (DR) TB and reframe the crises as the global humanitarian emergencies they are.

  • We shape the global research and humanitarian agendas by focusing on TB/HIV as a global research and policy priority.

We partner with local people and national institutions.

  • Local healthcare workers are at the heart of our work.

  • Since our founding we work with communities and national programs to ensure those in need receive the healthcare they deserve today and that it is sustainable for tomorrow.

  • Building supportive partnerships with individuals, families, communities, national health systems and international agencies underlie the development of our innovative treatments, which are scaled-up within countries and replicated around the world.

We take aim at root causes through a holistic approach to care.

  • GHC works with communities, local healthcare workers, and national programs to create a holistic approach to care. By building home, community, and hospital based treatment centers, people can receive TB and HIV care wherever they are.

  • We ensure that basic needs such as food and transportation are never barriers to TB and HIV care so no one has to choose between working to eat and seeking care for TB or HIV. Our flexible approach and national partnerships seek to solve problems and never leave anyone behind.

  • We create Centers of Excellence within hospitals working with national programs, lending our expertise to establish the best practices that are sustainable for treating people unfortunately afflicted by TB and HIV.

We use science in service of care

  • We nest life-saving research within delivery of care to save lives now and improve treatment of TB, drug-resistant TB, and TB/HIV co-infection in the future.

  • Our lab-based science continues to uncover how TB and TB/HIV interact with the immune system, to improve diagnosis and treatment of TB and TB/HIV

Healing the world one life at a time

Girls in a computer class at CHC’s Maddox Chivan Children’s Center in Phnom Penh.