Mvuselelo, the first male-friendly clinic in Region A has been launched at Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre (Witkoppen) in a bid to help fight HIV infections in young girls, women and their partners. This clinic is not just a place to test for HIV, but also a place where men can be attended to for other illnesses. Because Mvuselelo seeks to encourage men’s access to healthcare, it is operated by an all-male staff compliment (including a professional nurse and a counsellor for HIV testing). T...

Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre has a vacancy for a DREAMS Community Health Worker which needs to be filled immediately. Key Performance Areas include counselling and Health Education. Closing date: 20 January 2017

Video: A FRESH START - A Future Realized through Education, Support and Healthcare for women & children, is a program from The Gift of Hope for women and children in need in the communities of Johannesburg. A FRESH Start provides a comprehensive postnatal program, including HIV care and treatment, at Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre. We thank our donors whose commitment allows us to truly make a difference in people's lives.

Dr Jean Bassett, Executive Director of Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre, recently attended Organizational Wellness Training sponsored by Discovery. Dr Bassett said: “I learned that Witkoppen does so much in terms of organizational wellness, but that it is not packaged correctly. So we will focus on rebranding employee wellness”. Witkoppen is very grateful for the partnership we have with Discovery, which benefits Witkoppen and our beneficiaries in so many ways. We specifically thank ...

Are you a student in Nutrition or Dietetics, or an individual with interest in health and nutrition? Our dietician, Elmaré, is one of the most dedicated and compassionate people at Witkoppen Clinic. She says that a Dietician’s job has many facets, including anthropometrical, dietary and clinical assessment, dietary recommendation and advice, growth monitoring, etc. However, the core aspect of Dietician’s work entails the Therapeutic Diet, which involves assessing the patients’ diet and compil...

Ahead Hair Group (Thee Hairdresser, Fourways Mall; Hair Network, Fourways Mall and Hair on Cedar, Cedar Square) are again collecting presents for the children who are provided with medical and social services at Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre this year. They will be given out at a party at Witkoppen Clininc on Saturday 5th December.

We said good-bye and good luck to 10 Volunteer/Stipend trainees at a small “graduation” function on 27th November. Each trainee thanked Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre and National Lottery for the amazing opportunity they had been given, emphasising how much they has learnt and how the confidence they had gained will change their lives. We wish them all the best!

Although Witkoppen Clinic is not 24-hour service facility and does not provide baby delivery services, sometimes babies come faster than expected and are born at the clinic. We do what we can to help, but always send the mom and baby to hospital as soon as it safe to do so. One such occasion was on Monday 9th November, when a baby was born outside the clinic.

In October, Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre partnered with Rotary to run the Family Health Day, for the third year in a row, for an outreach in the Diepsloot community to provide screening for communicable and non-communicable chronic diseases (including HIV, TB and diabetes) and health promotion and education. Everybody was health promotion talks and encouraged to make use of the medical facilities available to them. There was a very lively atmosphere and the days were well attended.

Many residents of Msawawa have lost everything they have ever owned in the fire on Wednesday. We appeal to you to kindly donate anything you can - all donations can be dropped off at the Witkoppen Clinic.