CharisHealth develops relationships with key government agencies,
hospitals, NGO's, academic institutions, scientific and medical
research centres, and General Practitioners in South Africa, U
SA
and Europe in order to stimulate an "Out of Africa"
approach to Health Care. CharisHealth has developed a innovative
approach to provide and staff community clinics with the doctors,
nurses, counsellors and other staff necessary to mobilize the frontline
against HIV/AIDS & TB, and other illnesses.
Combining a community and family-based delivery system with practical training, nutritional support, and social development, we can achieve major progress in transforming a stale, overburdened healthcare framework into a living system that overcomes the hurdles to success in South Africa. CharisHealth's comprehensive, holistic and systematic approach brings together the very best in conventional and traditional medicine - with a human face.
CharisHealth projects advance this goal with the majority of all treatment for HIV/AIDS, TB and other illnesses undertaken by a "Specially Trained and Accredited Workforce" recruited from natural and traditional medicine, faith-based care workers, and community volunteers. By placing the burden of day to day HIV/AIDS and TB Health Care such a workforce, recruited and trained from the local community as well as the infected, valuable core medical resources of doctors, nurses and hospitals are freed to concentrate on complicated cases of opportunistic infections, toxicity, resistance, adverse reactions and very serious related and unrelated medical disorders.
Affiliated clinics iadhere to a set of guidelines for operation, but are free to develop further. CharisHealth affiliated clinics can be located and operated anywhere, from city centers to remote rural locations. While our main focus is on HIV/AIDS and TB treatment, our approach necessitates practical attention to larger healthcare issues and augments the reach of basic medical care to people on the periphery of modern medicine.