Our community health programmes aim to support organisations that mobilise and train community health workers as well as outreach clinics and projects that focus onn non-communicable and chronic diseases.
This includes:
- Mobilising and training community health workers to do household assessments, give health education as well as to screen and refer people with diseases for assessment or treatment.
- Giving comprehensive HIV and AIDS care, management and treatment, preventing mother-to-child transmission and rolling out antiretroviral therapy and getting people to adhere to the therapy.
- Strengthening healthcare systems and increasing access to quality primary healthcare services, including eyecare programmes.
Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation
(Western Cape)
The Tutu Tester Mobile Health on Wheels project (Tutu Tester) was launched in Cape Town in 2008. It aims to give accessible, community-based HIV testing and counselling services. It works to destigmatise (remove the negative associations from) HIV and AIDS testing by giving a range of tests for non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension, at the same time.
Hlokomela (Limpopo)
One of our flagship programmes, Hlokomela, offers healthcare services to farm workers and communities in the Kruger to Canyon districts, which fall within both Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. They operate wellness clinics to gives information, condoms and healthcare services and referrals to farm workers and their families. Other services include screening for breast and cervical cancer, giving young girls and women information about various aspects of their health, running onsite outreach campaigns, running HIV and TB groups and giving home-based care for at-risk persons.
The NOAH Clinic (Western Cape)
NOAH clinics give primary and preventative community healthcare services to pensioners in Woodstock and Khayelitsha.
Jabulani Rural Health Foundation
(Eastern Cape)
The Jabulani Foundation supports the quality HIV and TB care project that supports patients in starting and adhering to HIV and TB treatment. It supports Zithulele Hospital (where the Jabulani is based) and its surrounding clinics with prepacked medicine for the programme; and with ensuring patient protocols to achieve high levels of adherence.
SA Depression and Anxiety Group
(KwaZulu-Natal)
The South African Depression and Anxiety Group's Suicide Helpline offers free telephonic counselling services and SMS support, and referrals accross the country through highly skilled volunteer counsellors.
South African National Council for the Blind (Mpumalanga)
The Cataract Outreach Project gives patient screenings, sight-restoring cataract operations and glasses. They arrange 'cataract tours' while working with the provincial Department of Health. The department gives them access to theatres and other hospital space as well as refers people from other facilities who need cataract operations.