Global Health Committee

Healing the world one life at a time

Children at the Maddox Chivan Children’s Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Global Health Committee is a US-based humanitarian 501(c)(3) organization that delivers life-saving care for TB and HIV in Africa and Asia in partnership with Cambodian Health Committee.

Impact

Caring for a TB patient on a home visit in Svay Rieng, Cambodia

Examining a nurse who acquired drug-resistant TB in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mother with her daughter receiving TB/HIV treatment in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

110,000+ TB patients treated in Cambodia.

5100+ people with drug-resistant TB treated in Ethiopia & Cambodia

1 million+ with TB+/HIV+ saved globally based on our work

CHC home visit, Svay Rieng, Cambodia. -James Nachtwey

Cambodian Health Committee health worker on a home visit of a TB patient in Svay Rieng, Cambodia. Photo by James Nachtwey

Vision

A world without TB and HIV, where life-saving medicine is a right, not a privilege.

Mission

We save lives and restore health

  • We overcome barriers and ensure access to treatment and care for TB, drug-resistant TB, and HIV.

We partner locally and create a lasting impact

  • We deliver care from the hands of local people.

  • We work in partnership with national institutions and local communities to provide life-saving treatment for TB, HIV, & drug-resistant TB.

We use science to save lives

  • We save lives by pioneering new treatments and by improving global standards of care for HIV & TB.

  • We lead the way in community-based TB and drug-resistant TB treatment.

  • We uncover how the immune system fights TB and TB/HIV to save lives today and to find tomorrow’s cures.

“He who saves a single life is as though he saved the entire world”

Urgent Appeal

Cambodia

In Cambodia, USAID funding for treatment of Drug Resistant-TB was abruptly stopped on Jan 25, 2025.

239 patients were mid-treatment.

Without health workers whose salaries were supported by these funds to monitor their treatment, and without the supplemental nutrition and food that was provided, these patients faced poor outcomes including death—and were at risk of spreading drug-resistant TB in their communities.

Supported by emergency donations while we work to secure long-term funding, we have worked to fill this void and keep care going over the past months to save lives and to prevent new infections.

Any support you can provide would be extremely helpful.

Ethiopia

Ethiopia is currently experiencing conflict,  famine, and disease outbreaks, which create great challenges to our work delivering drug-resistant TB care across the country.

Support for medical and nutritional support is urgently needed for patients who struggle to survive through the complex, yet life-saving treatment for drug-resistant TB to restore health and decrease the ongoing spread of this lethal but curable infection.

 

We would be very grateful if you could consider a donation to these life-saving efforts.