About Us
Who is Chaps
The Centre for HIV and AIDS Prevention Studies (CHAPS) is a dynamic public benefit South African based organisation, offering a diverse range of services in healthcare and skills development, with a specific focus on medical male circumcision as a biomedical intervention for HIV prevention.
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Primary Healthcare Services
MMC Training & qaulity assurance
M&E research, learning
Do you want a free circumcision?
Primary Healthcare Services
MMC Training & qaulity assurance
M&E research, learning
Our Mission
To reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and the region by providing innovative biomedical health solutions, particularly the safe and efficient VMMC scale-up as part of a fully comprehensive HIV prevention strategy.
Our values
Respect
To treat the patient as we would like to be treated – with care, compassion, competence.
Integrity
To provide services in an honest, ethical and responsible manner.
Innovation
To foster a dynamic problem-solving environment that is innovative to support, train and deliver VMMC services in the most efficient, cost-effective and exceptional manner.
Care and support after your circumcision
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Goals and Objectives
- To impact South Africa positively by working to reduce new HIV infections and improve health outcomes.
- To help South Africa reach its goal of 80% medical male circumcision coverage by 2016 by assisting with the implementation of the South African Government Policy of voluntary medical male circumcision through service delivery and technical assistance.
- To promote and provide a friendly and convenient environment for males to access medical male circumcision and a variety of other healthcare services.
- To provide the highest quality of medical male circumcision training, that is Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified.
- To expand the public health knowledge base through targeted, ground breaking research.
Ceo Dr Dirk Taljaard
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