Global Health Committee
Healing the world one life at a time
Children at the Maddox Chivan Children’s Center for HIV affected children in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
No one should die from a curable or treatable disease, such as tuberculosis and HIV
Tuberculosis (TB) is curable, yet in 2025 over 1.2 million people died of TB, which remains the largest cause of infectious disease death in the world.
HIV is treatable, however ~10 million people who needed HIV treatment did not receive it in 2025.
The loss of life and suffering caused by TB and HIV is preventable.
Since 1994, we have focused on bringing access to care and treatment for TB, drug resistant TB, and HIV, in Asia and Africa.
Global Health Committee (GHC) is a US-based 501(c)(3) humanitarian organization, which works in Ethiopia and works in partnership with and provides support to the Cambodian Health Committee (CHC), an independent local Cambodian NGO founded in 1994.
Cambodian Health Committee worker comforts a young woman suffering from advanced HIV and TB in Battambang, Cambodia. Photo by James Nachtwey
We overcome barriers that keep people from care. These include poverty, living in areas of conflict, and distance from a health facility.
We integrate our programs into the local and national health care systems in the countries where we work, so the health infrastructure is strengthened and the programs are sustainable.
Working in close partnership with local health workers and national programs, we provide each patient with the best care possible while we improve standards of local and global care.
We save lives and decrease suffering from TB and HIV with the medicines we have in our hands and we use science to find new and better treatments for TB and HIV in the future.
Impact
In Ethiopia, we contributed data to an international trial showing that a new drug resistant TB regimen shortens treatment, a game changer that changed WHO policy.
In 2025, we delivered TB care to 23 of the 25 provinces of Cambodia where 82% of Cambodia’s 15 million citizens live, achieving a TB cure rate of 97%.
We initiated the Ethiopian countrywide program for drug-resistant TB in partnership with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, achieving the best clinical outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Our data from a clinical trial done in Cambodia with Cambodian and French colleagues changed global WHO policy to recommend early treatment of HIV in patients with HIV/TB, which has saved ~1 million+ lives .
As of 2026, we treated 3060+ Ethiopians with drug-resistant TB, including 700+ children & teens, and developed protocols and assisted the national program to scale up care to 8000+.
Our HIV clinic for children in the largest public hospital in Cambodia, hosted 85,000 clinic visits between 2009-2020. In 2025, we cared for 6200+ adults & children with HIV in two rural clinics and an urban clinic in Phnom Penh.
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 for TB, drug-resistant TB, and HIV.
We partner locally and create lasting impact
We deliver care from the hands of local people.
We lead the way in community-based TB, HIV, and drug-resistant TB treatment
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 pioneer new treatments and global standards of care for HIV & TB.
We uncover how the immune system fights TB and TB/HIV to find tomorrow’s cures.