Last Updated 7.30.07 Copyright 2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.


BroadReach is the prime contractor leading an innovative, $20M+ US PEPFAR funded antiretroviral treatment program in South Africa - a country with the world's highest HIV/AIDS burden of nearly 6,000,000 people infected. This program, conceived and launched by BroadReach in 2004, seeks to enroll as many patients onto life-saving HIV/AIDS treatment as possible by overcoming the critical human resource capacity shortages so prevalent across the developing world. To realize this goal, BroadReach is:

  • Organizing South Africa's largely untapped private and NGO healthcare providers into a well-managed and organized delivery network
  • Building capacity in local government healthcare institutions by improving their operations and clinical skills

Key highlights of this program include:

  • Providing care to patients in underserved and rural areas who otherwise would not have access to life-saving treatment
  • Partnering with government hospitals and clinics to improve efficiency and quality of care so that more patients can be treated
  • Tapping into the capacity of South Africa's private and NGO healthcare providers by creating a network of doctors, laboratories, and drug distributors to complement the work of the South African government program to diagnose and treat uninsured, "public sector" HIV/AIDS patients.
  • Working through networks of community-based support organizations such as local churches and small businesses to help mobilize, educate and provide ongoing support to people living with HIVAIDS
  • Financing the care and treatment of patients through a "social health insurance" fund
  • Ensuring quality of care through an innovative disease management system which centralizes operational and clinical data collected in the program, applies algorithms to the data to flag potential quality outliers, and remotely supports the care and treatment decisions of field based health workers through nurse and physician manned call centers. Additionally, the Harvard Medical School Division of AIDS has partnered with BroadReach to help oversee program quality and to train healthcare providers.

For more information on our South Africa treatment program, see this article released by the US State Department in Dec 2005.



  
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