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Aurum Health Research (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
Legal Status: A wholly owned subsidiary of Anglogold Limited, registered as a private research company.
Mission Statement/Goal:
To conduct research of international standing which focuses on the health of miners and their families. The company uses a scientific approach to gather information, create knowledge, provide recommendations and deliver products and services to those involved in the health care of miners.
Contact Information
Contact person: Prof. G.J. Churchyard
Address: P.O. Box 61587, Marshalltown, 2107, Johannesburg, RSA
Phone: (27 82) 3383557
Fax: (27 11) 6382179
E-mail: gchurch@mjvn.co.za
Description of services provided:
Aurum Health Research works in the Free State, North West and Gauteng provinces.
Care:
Providing care, education and preventive isoniazid and cotrimoxazole treatment to HIV-infected individuals in an established HIV Clinic. Continued care for these patients, for both inpatient and outpatient care, provided by the Mining Company.
Prevention:
-Isoniazid and cotrimoxazole preventive treatment in identified HIV-infected individuals
-Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT)
-Targeted Community Intervention for women at high risk
-Peer Educators
Treatment:
-Preventive treatment for HIV-infected individuals - see above
-Tuberculosis (TB) treatment as part of a comprehensive TB Control Programme, including active case-finding, routine culturing, organism identification and drug sensitivity testing.
Workplace: Care, education and training within a workplace setting.
Community : Targeted Community Intervention
- peer education
- syndromic sexually transmitted infection (STI) treatment
- periodic presumptive STI management
Organizational History
Year started: 1998
Structure:
- Board: Dr C.M.F. Eisenstein (Chairman), Prof. G.J. Churchyard, Dr D.F. Barnes (British), Ms D. Earp
- Managing Director: Prof. G.J. Churchyard, MD, FCP(SA), MMED (INT MED), PHD (WITS)
- International Collaborators: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, UNAIDS, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Hygiene, Louisiana State University, Health Science Centre
- Local collaborators: University of Cape Town, National Centre of Occupational Health, National Institute of Virology
Employees/volunteers: 36
Working languages: English
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