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The Usapho Lwethu Clinic Team, from left to right: Dr. Kwezi Matoti, Poppy, Nomaroma, Mtateleli, Nobafundi, Sr. Felicity Cope, Noluvo and Nonsikelelo.
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What we do - SA Clinic GuguletuThe Hannan Crusaid Treatment Centre, Guguletu, South Africa In October 2002, the first twelve patients started combination therapy at the Hannan Crusaid Treatment Centre in Guguletu, near Cape Town, South Africa. The clinic, fully funded by Crusaid thanks to a generous legacy from Katie Hannan, is the first public community clinic in South Africa to provide free access to life-saving treatments. Since its opening, the centre has been helping to keep alive and in good health people who were previously very ill with HIV and often AIDS. Crusaid funded this pilot programme to provide life-saving treatment to patients in the advanced stages of HIV infection. Crusaid’s aim was to fund a project that would be taken over by the Western Cape Government if the pilot could be proven to be successful – Crusaid achieved this aim. The clinic works with local partners, The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation and the Western Cape Government, to deliver antiretroviral therapy to 1,000 outpatients. As you know, it’s very likely that the person whose treatment you were helping pay for in Guguletu was a mother. A woman who needed our help to stop her passing on HIV to her unborn baby, or a very sick mother desperate to return to health so she could be there for her children. From the initial group of 150 people, the centre is now treating over 1,000 people, and the approach to treatment we pioneered and proved in Guguletu will be rolled out in every new clinic across the region. Read what one of our supporters said. The overwhelming need for antiretroviral treatment still exists, however The Hannan Crusaid Treatment Centre has shown the South African Government that people living in very difficult conditions can stick to complex HIV therapies if they are given the chance – 95% of people receiving treatment at the centre have succeeded in doing so. In August 2005 our pilot came to an end and, as we hoped, the Western Cape Government took over the running and funding of the centre.  Premiere of the Western Cape, Ebrahim Rasool, speaks at the official opening of the Hannan Crusaid Treatment Centre. |
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