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The Bhubezi Community Health Centre is a public-private partnership with Ndlovu Medical Centre, Anglo American, and Virgin Unite. The clinic was officially opened in October 2007 at a ceremony attended by Sir Richard Branson, the US Ambassador to South Africa, and other dignitaries.

 The first patients were seen at the clinic in April 2007. The clinic is a one-stop centre for primary health care services, TB, and HIV treatment. The by mid-2008, the clinic was managing 1300 patient visits per month.
Right to Care provided the clinic with infrastructure and support in the form of staff housing, an ambulance, and an x-ray machine. Right to Care covers all operating expenses, including human resources and the procurement of ARV drugs and pathology monitoring. It hired two local doctors from Lillydale, the area surrounding the clinic.

Programmes started at the centre include the Bhubezi AIDS Awareness programme which deals mainly with community outreach. It built and equipped a facility for maternity and in-patients, which will open in 2008, once licensed by the local government. The maternity section will work mainly with the prevention of mother-to-child transmission, while the in-patient facility will help AIDS patients that cannot be transferred to other medical facilities.

At the end of March 2010 the clinic had over 2900 patients on abtiretroviral treatment.

 

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