HACT offers holistic and comprehensive HIV healthcare services to individuals, families and communities that align with South Africa’s National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS, TB & STI’s. These services include HIV testing, TB & STI screening, home-based and inpatient care as well as adherence counselling.

HACT’s Hillcrest Hospice 24-bed In-Patient Unit, fondly called Othandweni or “Place of Love,” offers round-the-clock respite and palliative care to both children and adults battling advanced stages of AIDS or cancer. As the only facility of its kind in KwaZulu-Natal, Othandweni stands as a beacon of hope for those who are critically ill and unable to access mainstream healthcare services.

Based in the heart of Hillcrest, more than 240 patients find comfort and care within our Hospice Unit every year. Under the compassionate guidance of our dedicated team of caregivers, nurses, and doctors, patients receive personalised treatment in a nurturing environment.

For those who recover, we provide intensive adherence counselling and ongoing support through our Patient Home Visit programme, ensuring their health and recovery are carefully monitored. For those in need of end-of-life care, our Hospice unit offers a dignified, peaceful environment where they are surrounded by care and compassion during their final moments.

HACT’s Patient Home Visit programme provides a comprehensive follow-up care service to patients recently discharged from our 24-bed Respite Unit as well as those awaiting admission to the Unit. (We regularly have a waiting list of between 10 – 15 patients.)

Continuity of care for our Respite Unit patients helps to reduce the number of re-admissions due to complications from patients defaulting on their ARV treatment. Through our team of specially trained nurses and community-based caregivers this programme also provides other primary healthcare services such as HIV testing, TB & STI screening, counselling and referrals to social services for our patients’ families, caregivers or neighbours in the community.

HACT provides professional and confidential HIV, TB & STI testing, screening and counselling services. These services are available at our centre on a walk-in basis, through community-based campaigns as well as employee health education and awareness events that we deliver on behalf of local corporates.

At HACT, we recognise that in addition to providing a gateway to HIV care and support services for those who are HIV positive, HIV testing is a key part of effective HIV prevention. All HIV testing and counselling offered by HACT is therefore accompanied by information on the prevention of future transmission of HIV, whether the patient is infected or not.