MKI serves as the hub of the MKI Global Network, a group of autonomous foundations and organizations around the world implementing a wide range of initiatives designed to meet the unique healthcare delivery needs of individual countries.
MKI Institute has consultative and/or cooperative relations with the following organizations (in alphabetical order):
American International College
Founded in 1885, American International College committed itself to educating immigrants who were new to the United States in order to prepare them for productive, meaningful lives in American society. Over the years this commitment has continued and evolved to include providing a global perspective to local students and welcoming young men and women from all over the world to study within its walls.
Home to a School of Health Sciences, AIC has systematically developed rigorous and high quality programs to educate future healthcare workers. The college's curricula are global-minded, encouraging all students to see their future careers in a broader societal context.
American International Health Alliance (AIHA)
The American International Health Alliance (AIHA) advances global health through volunteer-drive, twinning partnerships and other programs that mobilize communities to better address healthcare priorities, while improving productivity and quality of care.
Washington D.C., USA
www.aiha.com
Clover Mama Afrika
The Clover Mama Afrika – Ukwakha Isizwe (Building and nurturing our nation) project is a national social upliftment project which seeks to assist and support communities at grassroots level in an enabling and empowering manner so they can help themselves and those around them. The project’s main involvement is with women who look after abused, abandoned, orphaned and HIV/Aids children as well as the elderly.
In South Africa we have many such Mamas. They reflect humility, caring and strength and are respected by their peers. These Mamas hold the keys to the secrets of yesteryear. They tell the stories of the past and are the points of call in times of need. Not only are they aware of the needs of their communities, but they actively address those needs in whatever way possible. In their townships, they unassumingly take charge of protecting, nurturing and educating their young and take care of the abandoned senior citizens.
To date every aspect of the Clover Mama Afrika initiative has surpassed all expectations and each success is a testament to the hard work, dedication and enormous price of all involved.
Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation
The Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF) is a registered non-profit organization focused on the pursuit of excellence in research, treatment, training and prevention of HIV and related infections in Southern Africa. The foundation has a strong commitment to service delivery and community development but maintains an imperative to underscore this with evaluation and relevant research with the ultimate aim to impact on policy. The DTHF is involved in a number of initiatives which include the provision of antiretroviral therapy, studies into adherence strategies, clinical research, resource development for health care professionals, preparation of communities for HIV vaccine trials, adolescent sexual health and HIV prevention.
The DTHF provides antiretroviral therapy to public sector patients in both Nyanga and Masiphumelele as well as at the Clinical Trials Unit based at the Desmond Tutu Centre in the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Cape Town.
South Africa
www.desmondtutuhivcentre.org.za
Global Health Workforce Alliance
The Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) is a partnership hosted and administered by the World Health Organization. The Global Health Workforce Alliance is a partnership dedicated to identifying and implementing solutions to the health workforce crisis. It brings together a variety of actors, including national governments, civil society, finance institutions, workers, international agencies, academic institutions and professional associations.
Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/en/
Hart voor kinderen
The foundation Hart voor Kinderen (Heart for Children) is a Dutch registered non-profit Christian organization focused on the improvement of life circumstances of orphans particularly those living in Southern Africa. The founders Louis Pool and Erna Neuteboom believe that all children deserve a happy childhood and the hope for a better future. But there are millions of children that lost their parents mainly because of the AIDS epidemic. They are mostly confronted with insurmountable obstacles.
Goodwill ambassadors are former president of the Red Cross mr. Baron Kraijenhof, presenter of Hour of Power mr. Jan van den Bosch; Dr. Harold Robles president of Medical Knowledge Institute; singer mr. Daniel Rodriguez; trumpet player miss Melissa Venema and mrs. Donna Schuller host of American Life Network TV Show.
The motto of Hart voor Kinderen is : “each orphan should be allowed to be a child again...”
For more information go to www.hartvoorkinderen.nl
International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
The International Confederation of Midwives is an international non-governmental organization that unites 85 national midwives’ associations from over 75 countries. It both represents and brings together the midwives of the world. The Confederation works to develop the role of the midwife as a practitioner in her own right by advancing the provision of maternity care and thereby improving the standard of care provided to mothers, babies and the family throughout the countries of the world.
The Hague, The Netherlands
www.internationalmidwives.org
Mothers2Mothers & Mothers Creations
Each month, more babies are born with HIV in one clinic in Africa than in one year in the United States, Canada and England combined. This is because treatment to prevent the infection of newborns in the developed world has become as simple as a single dose of medicine for the mother and her newborn. While these same clinical solutions are now available in Africa, their impact and effectiveness for HIV-positive mothers is less successful without complementary social, emotional and psychological support. mothers2mothers (m2m) helps save these children and their mothers by offering essential support.
m2m offers an effective, sustainable model of care that provides education and support for pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV/AIDS.
Cape Town, South Africa
www.m2m.org
SANEC
Southern Africa Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (SANEC) provides the central link for companies, organizations and entrepreneurs who seek to do business between the Netherlands and South Africa/Southern Africa. For over fifteen years, the Chamber has been facilitating the establishment of business links between South Africa and the Netherlands by supplying information on the economic situation in both countries, bringing together potential trade partners, and offering a wide range of other services. Since 2005, it has extended its activities to the neighboring countries in the SADC region as well, namely Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia.
The Hague, The Netherlands
www.sanec.nl
Services SETA
Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETA's) have been established in terms of the Skills Development Act as from 1 April 2000, and will be responsible for disbursement of the training levies payable by all employers. These levies will be collected by the South African Revenue Service via the Department of Labour, and are to be disbursed through a management system motivated by skills requirement assessment and monitoring. Thus SETA's will ensure that the skill requirements of the sector are identified and that the adequate and appropriate skills are readily available. The SETA would contribute to the improvement of sector skills through achieving a more favourable balance between demand and supply, and would ensure that education and training: - Is provided subject to validation and quality assurance; - Meets agreed standards within a national framework; - Ensures that new entrants to the labour market are adequately trained, and; - Acknowledges and enhances the skills of the current work force.
Parktown, South Africa
www.serviceseta.org.za
Strategies for Hope Trust
The Strategies for Hope Trust produces manuals, books and films about ways in which communities can address the challenges of the global HIV epidemic. All of these materials are evidence-based, well illustrated and written in user-friendly language. Over 1 million copies of these materials are now in circulation worldwide. Strategies for Hope materials have been produced in several languages, including French, Swahili and Portuguese. Many are distributed by our partner organizations, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Oxford, United Kingdom
www.stratshope.org
University of Cape Town
Welcome to the University of Cape Town. This website is designed to give you an overview of life and work at UCT.
Founded in 1829, UCT has a proud tradition of academic excellence and effecting social change and development through its pioneering scholarship, faculty and students.
It is also renowned for its striking beauty, with its campus located at the foot of Table Mountain's Devil's Peak, with panoramic views of much of Cape Town.
UCT is very similar to the city of Cape Town: it has a vibrant, cosmopolitan community. It is a cultural melting pot where each person contributes their unique blend of knowledge and thinking. Our staff and students come from over 100 countries in Africa and the rest of the world. The university has also built links, partnerships and exchange agreements with leading African and international institutions that further enrich the academic, social and cultural diversity of our campus.
UN NGO-DPI
Non-governmental organizations have been partners of the Department of Public Information (DPI) since its establishment in 1947. Official relationships between DPI and NGOs date back to 1968. The Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1297 called on DPI to associate NGOs with effective information programmes in place and thus disseminate information about issues on the UN’s agenda and the work of the Organization. Through associated NGOs DPI seeks to reach people around the world and help them better understand the work and aims of the United Nations.
The DPI/NGO Section is part of the department’s Outreach Division and acts as its liaison between the United Nations and NGOs and other civil society organizations. It oversees partnerships with associated NGOs and provides a wide range of information services to them. These include weekly NGO briefings, communication workshops, an annual NGO conference and an annual orientation programme for newly associated NGOs.
New York, USA
www.un.org/dpi/ngosection
West Africa Doctors Network WADN
The vision of WADN is to become an unbeatable access point for medical and healthcare professionals looking for information and knowledge. In particularly in the areas of information access, distance-learning, telemedicine and knowledge-based support of diagnosis, treatment and management of the patient.
Accra, Ghana
www.wadn.org
World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO’s objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO’s Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Geneva, Switzerland
www.who.org
World Medical Association (WMA)
The World Medical Association (WMA) is an international organization representing physicians, founded in September 1947. The organization was created to ensure the independence of physicians and to work for the highest possible standards of ethical behaviour and care by physicians, at all times. This was particularly important to physicians after the Second World War, and therefore the WMA has always been an independent confederation of free professional associations, which has grown to approximately 80 National Medical Associations.
Ferney-Voltaire, France
www.wma.net
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