Overview

Programme:	1
Key question:	1&2
Start date:	01/04/2005
End date:	30/08/2007
Status:	Ongoing
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Project outputs:
CCCS Pending

The overarching goal of this project is to promote good health and quality of life through the principles of Primary Health-Care (PHC) and people-centred development. The Valley Trust, an NGO operating in KwaZulu-Natal's Valley of a Thousand Hills, offers a range of social programmes (including health, agriculture, ecology, nutrition) as elements of an integrated model described as "Comprehensive Care".

Our research objectives in this study are to examine the costs and benefits of these additional components. This will entail, firstly, establishing the cost of providing an activity per beneficiary for various services provided by Valley Trust and understanding the qualitative benefits of providing additional components of care, and secondly, understanding the current and future role of the NGO in providing comprehensive care.

As the burden of HIV/AIDS care requires more than mere provision of medical attention, priorities are being set to view more holistic models of support. Comprehensive primary health-care (CPHC) encompasses a curative purpose alongside efforts to address other determinants of health, such as access to safe water, proper sanitation income generation, nutrition and the like. Examining the Valley Trust's and various other programmes will provide deeper insight into how such models work, the links between the State and the organisation, and the extent to which their systems are valuable in replication elsewhere.

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