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CompuTainer (Pty) Ltd
South Africa
AS A PROUD
LIFE LONG AWARDED
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CONTACT PERSON:
Mark VAN DER MERWE
POSITION IN COMPANY:
Managing Director
PHYSICAL ADDRESS:
43 Hoogenhout Cres
Lonehill 2062
JOHANNESBURG
GAUTENG
SOUTH AFRICA
POSTAL ADDRESS:
P. O. Box 808
Witkoppen 2068
SOUTH AFRICA
TEL:
00 27 (0)73 355 4191
FAX:
00 27 (0)11 465 2447
CELL:
00 27 (0)73 355 4191
EMAIL:
markvdm@telkomsa.net
WEB:
www.computainer.com
EXPERTISE:
Education Training HIV/AIDS
PET PROJECT/BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES:
The
Here is an extract from a letter (dated August 2004) received from the
Developing Africa
SPECIAL PROJECT SERVING AFRICA
status - SEE:
South African Department of Health.
Here is an extract from a letter I have just received from the South African Department of Health.
"On behalf of the Deputy Minister of Health, Mrs N.C. Madlala-Routledge,
The Deputy Minister fully endorses “CompuTainer” and would like some more
Soul Beat Africa Recognition
PRESS RELEASE
CompuTainer, founding company of the CompuTainer HIV, AIDS and TB Awareness Training Kiosk, today announced plans to expand to a full service around HIV, AIDS and TB. CompuTainer today offers HIV, AIDS and TB awareness training via kiosks to mass audiences. Mark Van der Merwe, Managing Director of CompuTainer, said “We looked at the peer education model in South Africa and with a target audience of about 24 million in the 15-49 age groups that needs to be trained, we were looking at 200 years at today’s peer education capacity to train everyone. At CompuTainer we turned to technology to create a mass audience interactive training kiosk that is capable of training over 1,000 people per year at affordable prices.” We believe we have the ability to drop prices of training down by at least 80% based on today’s current prices. We further looked at the area around testing and patient care.
With prices being high on the testing area, few smaller to medium companies are affording these. We also looked at rapid test kits available world wide and have chosen the best kits available as tested by the WHO and UNAIDS. We have successfully negotiated on pricing so as to bring the kits to market at affordable prices for smaller and medium companies. Clearly these kits can not be supplied direct to companies that do not have counselling facilities but we are negotiating with several private clinics and hospitals to provide those services for smaller and medium clients. Clearly with the larger companies we can work at supplying direct to their medical clinics in-house. We believe we can reduce the impact to companies by as much as 70% with regards to testing status for their staff.
Finally, the area of nutritional supplements seems to be filled with every medicine man and his dog. As an outsider to the market we have evaluated proven nutritional supplements as used by existing patients, supplements that have proven tests and supplements that have clear capacity to supply quantities that we believe are required in today’s world. I recently did an unsolicited call on a local pharmacy that seems to be promoting various packs and the going price was incredible based on what we found available in the market. With lesser proven nutritional ingredients we find the price in retail being almost 300% higher than the manufacturers sell at. We have once again successfully negotiated a full Food Supplement, Energy Booster, Antioxidant & Detoxifier and Immune System Modulator for prices that are affordable to the medium and small companies. We believe that we can negotiate further and bring these to market at about a 66% saving to companies.
At CompuTainer our aim is to reduce the new infection rate of HIV to as close to 0% by 2020 by affordably providing Awareness Training, Status Checking and Nutritional Care to all Governments and Companies in Africa. Clearly the emphasis is on affordable as with the numbers we have today of HIV infections we can not allow astronomical prices to put the much needed care out of reach from the small and medium companies and countries.
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I wish to thank you for your time and informative talk which the Deputy Minister
and myself had with you at the African Defence Summit on 13 July 2004.
information from you in this regard.
Detailed background information regarding the concept, the implementation and the sustainability thereof
will help her in deciding where to lobby for further support and to bring you into contact with relevant role players."
Soul Beat Africa
15 October 2004
Mark VAN DER MERWE
markvdm@telkomsa.net
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