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Brooklyn Medical Centre Research c/c, South Africa
Legal Status: Closed Corporation operating under the auspices of the South African Legal System
Mission Statement/Goal:
- To provide primary care at a community level which is cost effective, medically effective, and socially empowering
- To achieve excellence in Phase 11 and 111 research projects (both corporate and self-initiated projects)
- To achieve excellence of care across the spectrum of human experience, with special reference to the HIV infected patient
- To maintain a focus on the holistic and family medicine approach to care, recognizing that patients are not merely clinical problems, but people with their own set of values, ideals and dreams, and their own network of special people around them.
Contact Information
Contact persons: Dr Neal David
Address: 379 Koeberg Road Rugby, Cape Town, South Africa
Phone: 27 21 510 1569
Fax: 27 21 510 1590
E-mail: neal@bmc.co.za
Description of services provided:
Brooklyn Medical Centre operates in South Africa (Predominantly Eastern and Western Cape Provinces), Botswana, Zambia, Malawi.
Currently involved in Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) ARV outreach project in the Western Cape
Care - Full primary and tertiary care, including assistance with ARV regimens as inpatients.
Prevention/ Community involvement - teaching, training of lay and peers, condom and sex aid demonstration and distribution, testing (seroprevalence and VCT), ETC.
Treatment - extensive experience in resource poor settings; with clinical trial protocols with HAART regimens; With HAART regimens managed directly and indirectly over 5 years numbering many thousands of patients.
Community - All communities of the Western Cape, although the referral base now extends up into Africa and it is not unusual to treat Kenyans, etc in the course of a day. Largest group of patients come from South African Historically disadvantaged communities.
Orphans - Only recently begun catering for paediatric HIV, but do see many families where the children are being looked after by foster parents once their parents have died.
Other - Active involvement with hospice, Southern African Clinicians' Society executive committee member. Member of the Treatment Action Campaign. Involvement with challenging business to move into ARV programmes to maintain workforce productivity and client base, thus getting our treatment into the community. Heading up one of 3 "pilot sites" for ARV programmes into large semi rural areas.
Organizational History
Employees/volunteers: 3 doctors, 1 nursing sister, 1 trial manager/pharmacist, 1 trial administrator, 2 reception staff full time. Part time social work, psychology, dietetic input.
 | | Locations | | Botswana | | South Africa | | Other | | | | Interventions | | Care | | Community | | Orphans | | Prevention | | Treatment | | Other | |
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