Statistics About the Area

• We cover an area of 1500 square km.
• This area has roughly 100,000 people
• 57% of whom are under 19
• 35% are HIV positive
• Almost everyone must collect water from communal water pumps or from dams, in winter travelling very far.
• Almost no-one has electricity.
• An unemployment rate of 90%.
• 50% of households live on less than R200 per month ($30).

Community and Home-based Care Statistics

Recent figures showed that although statisticly there should be around 2,000 deaths per year, the hospital only dealt with 1,000 last year. That means 1,000 deaths happen unrecorded at home. Many, many people can't afford to access treatment due to travel costs to clinics and hospital - which is where our community and home-based care project comes in. The following table shows our patient numbers and stats for the past few months:

Month	Patients visited	% HIV+	% ART	% with TB	% bed-ridden	Cost per patient
November 2005	442	82	0	17	13	R 113
December 2005	599	77	0	12	13	R 107
January 2006	774	84	0	13	10	R 88
February 2006	877	81	0	14	9	R 98
March 2006	1035	76	24	11	8	R 95
April 2006	923	83	30	13	6	R 104
May 2006	1129	90	32	13	4	R 90
June 2006	1316	94	34	15	5	R 78

Statistics About OVCs

• We have a database of over 3000 orphans