SWAZILAND

Good Shepherd Hospital

The Good Shepherd Hospital is a 125 bed rural hospital located on the eastern border of Swaziland in a small town called Siteki in the Lubombo region. It is a mission hospital that runs in partnership with the Catholic Diocese and the Swazi government. The government pays the hospital wages but the operational costs of the hospital are covered by the Catholic Church. The Good Shepherd Hospital services approximately 250,000 residents of Lubombo and is one of only 6 hospitals in Swaziland. Given that there is no medical school in Swaziland, all doctors are foreign trained and very few are of Swazi origin. There is an average of one doctor per 30,000 people.

Sister Futhi

Project Title	Start Date	Planned End Date
TB HIV collaborative intervention effectiveness in GS Hospital Swaziland	July 2007	June 2008
TB HIV interventions - phase 2, in health centres in Swaziland	January 2008	March 2008
TB HIV integration in hospitals (GSH) Swaziland	July 2007	June 2008
A prospective evaluation of a community based antiretroviral treatment programme in a rural African setting

 

Susan Elden