[afro-nets] Mobile/Satellite Health Clinic Design Workshop

[Cameron Sinclair <csinclair@architectureforhumanity.org>]

Mobile/Satellite Health Clinic Design Workshop
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2nd and 3rd March, 2004
Mtubatuba, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
 
 
Dear all,
 
We are finalizing participants and I wanted to follow-up with 
you before we start our long flight to South Africa (Thursday to 
Saturday!). We are pretty excited about the workshop, the re-
sponse to the upcoming event has been fantastic and our host, 
The Africa Center, has been extremely helpful in organizing 
things from South Africa. If everyone can make it we are expect-
ing doctors and medical professionals from 4 African countries 
and architects and designers from 3 continents in attendance 
 
Unfortunately we do not have a long distance travel budget but 
we maybe able help for a few internal/close flights within SA 
for those who are having trouble making it.
 
Yours Sincerely,
 
Cameron Sinclair
mailto:csinclair@architectureforhumanity.org
 
 
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Mobile/Satellite Health Clinic Design Workshop
 
2nd and 3rd March, 2004
9am to 5pm
The Africa Center for Health and Population Studies
Mtubatuba, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa 
 
http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/Workshop_Invite.pdf
 
 
"a remarkable project with great possibility" 
William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States 
 
 
We are pleased to announce that we are holding a design develop-
ment workshop to develop a mobile/satellite health clinic to 
combat HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa and would be honoured if 
you would consider attending or inviting healthcare profession-
als you know to participate in this important event. 
 
The workshop is the result of an international design competi-
tion held in 2002 to develop designs for sustainable and cost-
effective mobile/satellite health clinics to combat HIV/AIDS in 
Sub-Saharan Africa. More than 530 teams of architects, design-
ers, engineers and medical professionals responded.
 
Just one of many reasons the development of these clinics is vi-
tal, is they would be an ideal way to implement the testing ca-
pabilities and far-reaching dispersal of treatment. Prototypes 
of two of the four clinics we are developing cost less than US$ 
25,000 to produce and could see between 9,000 ? 10,000 people in 
rural areas on a sustained basis. 
 
We see the workshop as a critical step in moving from idea to 
implementation and look forward to including as many medical 
groups in that process. This event will afford health care pro-
viders a unique opportunity to work alongside the top four teams 
to develop a clinic to address the healthcare needs of the re-
gion's underserved and rural populations. Once the designs have 
been fully developed, construction documentation will be made 
available to those who participate in the workshop. 
 
There is no fee to attend the workshop, but space is limited. 
Lunch and refreshments will be served.
 
If you have any questions or need further information, please do 
not hesitate to contact me.
 
Cheers,
Cameron Sinclair
mailto:csinclair@architectureforhumanity.org
 
 
OUTREACH Advisory Board
 
Kate Bourne
Executive Vice President - International AIDS Vaccine Initia-
tive, New York, USA
 
Dr Johannes van Dam, M.D.
Deputy Director and Senior Program Associate - Population Coun-
cil, Washington, D.C., USA
 
Dr Shaffiq Essajee
Director - AIDS Research and Family Care Clinic, Mombasa, Kenya 
and NYU Medical Center, NY, USA
 
Frank O. Gehry
Design Principal - Gehry Partners, Los Angeles, USA
 
Prof. Rodney Harber
Principal - Harber and Associates and Professor - School of Ar-
chitecture, University of Natal, South Africa
 
Dr Reuben Mutiso
Principal - Tectura International, Nairobi, Kenya
 
Dr Sunanda Ray
Executive Director - Southern African AIDS Information Dissemi-
nation Service, Harare, Zimbabwe
 
Dr Michael Sweat, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Johns Hopkins University, School of Hy-
giene and Public Health
 
Ambassador Richard Swett
Principal - Swett Associates and former US Congressman and Am-
bassador to Denmark
 
 
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Architecture for Humanity
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New York, New York, 10011, USA
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mailto:csinclair@architectureforhumanity.org
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