Our Work
Built for Rigour and Impact
We deliver clinical and non-clinical research, capacity building, and health system strengthening designed to improve outcomes in HIV/AIDS, TB and related conditions. Our work is built for scientific rigour, ethics, and long-term impact — ensuring lasting benefit across the communities and systems we serve.
Our Work
ECF aims to promote improved health and well-being for all through the effective implementation of its core activities which include capacity development and health systems strengthening, social impact issues, and clinical and non-clinical research.
Enhancing Care Foundation’s focus areas and scope of service is presented below.
| Focus Areas | Scope Of Service |
|---|---|
| HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB (prevention, control, treatment, and care) research | Evaluation: design, implementation and evaluation of programs Research: translational research for diagnostics and therapeutics |
| Non-communicable diseases prevention and treatment | Implementation science research |
| Provision of quality health care | Prevention and behavior change research. Therapeutics research in HIV and TB |
| Clinical mentorship | Design and evaluation of mentorship strategies and programs for clinicians including doctors, nurses and pharmacists |
| Sexual and reproductive health and rights | Needs assessments |
| Key populations | Design and evaluation of programs for prevention of HIV and STI among key populations |
| Human rights and rights-based approaches | Involvement in capacity development in risk populations including MSM and Transgender populations |
| Gender mainstreaming | Involvement in gender-based structures for research including NIH Women’s Research Committee (DAIDS). Inclusion of gender-mainstreaming issues in all projects |
| Material development | Development of electronic and paper materials for a wide range of capacity development programs aimed at health care workers, auxiliary health workers and policy makers Development of IEC materials |
| Face to face training curriculum design, implementation and evaluation | Development and implementation of various programs aimed at clinical management, mentorship, communication, sexuality and program management |
| eLearning courses | Design, implementation and evaluation of blended and distance programs. Development of electronic learning platforms with associated tools for electronic assessments |
| Health promotion and social marketing | Involvement in education and awareness campaigns |
BUILT ON RESEARCH. DRIVEN BY IMPACT.
Enhancing Care Foundation (ECF) is a South African not-for-profit organisation delivering health system strengthening, capacity building, and clinical and non-clinical research services. With deep experience managing NIH-funded clinical trials in HIV and TB — and a leadership team that has independently retained both a Paediatric and an Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (ACTU) since 2007 — we bring a multi-national, collaborative team that implements studies with exceptional scientific rigour within the local context.
COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH, CAPACITY BUILDING AND HEALTH SYSTEM STRENGTHENING.
We deliver fully integrated services that span the research journey — from study design and implementation to capacity building and ongoing health system support. By combining clinical and non-clinical research, capacity development, and health system strengthening, we increase research outputs, improve the research environment, and build lasting linkages. Our approach is built on scientific rigour, ethics, and collaboration. Whether managing large multi-site clinical trials or strengthening local health systems, we deliver work that meets international standards while remaining grounded in the local context.
