South Africa is the epicentre of the HIV epidemic with 20% of the adult population infected. The high HIV prevalence rate is fueling a TB epidemic with a resistance strain of TB gaining a foothold in the county. An indication of the severity of the epidemic is that life expectancy in South Africa has dropped to 50 years of age.
Company History
epicentre was established in KwaZulu-Natal, the province with the highest HIV infection rate, with the vision to tackle HIV and Wellness concerns within the workplace context.
Since its inception in 2001, the company has shown tremendous growth and boasts a proven track record in delivering HIV/AIDS, Wellness and now employee health management programmes to leading organisations in South Africa.
Management
Cherie Cawood (BCom and MBA) is the founding member and majority shareholder. Cawood is a professional project manager and embeds sound project management principles in all the epicentre programmes and projects. She is based in the Cape Town office.
David Khanyile (BA, Hons Psychology) joined epicentre in 2002 and manages the Johannesburg office. David is a master trainer who ensures that all the epicentre training programmes are based on sound behaviour change theory.
Key Staff
- Mojabeng Malebo - Project planning and coordination
- Yolande Grobler - Sales and Marketing
- Liezel Williams - Accounts and HIV
- Nicola Davies-Laubscher - Materials Development
Contract staff
epicentre has a countrywide network of over 200 nurses, trainers and consultants who are certified in providing consulting, conducting epicentre field research, managing employee health, healthy living and HIV/AIDS training, conducting health assessments and providing voluntary counselling and testing.
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