There are approximately 38.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS around the world, and the vast majority of them live in Africa. In 2021, it is estimated that 860,000 people in Africa were newly infected with HIV and 420,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses.

On the other hand, in 2020, malaria caused an estimated 241 million clinical episodes and 627,000 deaths. An estimated 95% of deaths in 2020 were in the WHO African Region.

Despite significant progress made in recent years in expanding access to treatment, only around half of those who need treatment in Africa are able to receive it. Because of this, these diseases still kill a lot of people on the continent every year.

One nonprofit combating disease and improving access to healthcare on the continent is GAIA. GAIA’s mission is to strengthen healthcare in underserved African communities. GAIA envisions a world where health outcomes are not determined by who you are or where you live but believes that everyone deserves access to quality healthcare, no matter where they live, or who they are.

Kelsey Fisher, the Program and Grants Officer at GAIA Global Health, joins me on the podcast today to discuss GAIA's impact in healthcare in Malawa and how this is achieved, how GAIA finds investors and raises funds, collects and tracks data, the use of Salesforce and more.

The topics we cover:

What Kelsey and GAIA does
Kelsey’s motivation to join GAIA
The role of partnerships in GAIA’s mission and work
How GAIA finds investors and raises funds
GAIA's analytics and reporting to funders
Key data points collected by GAIA
How GAIA tracks its data
How GAIA leverages Salesforce
GAIA’s roadmap for CRM and Salesforce
Challenges of using Salesforce
How to contribute/get involved with GAIA

To learn more and connect with Kelsey:

GAIA Global Health: https://www.gaiaglobalhealth.org/

Kelsey Fisher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelseylfisher/

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