20 years ago, Ruedi Lüthy founded together with his family, friends, and supporters the Ruedi Lüthy Foundation. In Zimbabwe’s capital city Harare, he began building an HIV clinic. Today Newlands Clinic is treating about 8,000 patients. Being the biggest HIV training centre we are improving the provision of HIV-positive people in the whole country. And due to clinical research, we are contributing to progressive HIV medicines. Thanks to your support, we are helping to curb the HIV pandemic long-term. We say thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your trust and are looking forward to many more years to come.

Two of our esteemed members left the Board of Trustees of the Ruedi Lüthy Foundation at the end of the term of office in 2022. We want to thank Ulrich B. Mayer and Beat Wagner from the bottom of our hearts for their long-term and highly appreciated engagement.

Women living with HIV are at an increased risk of developing cervical cancer. We conducted a study identifying gaps in the continuum of care for cervical cancer screening, together with our Swiss partners in the IeDEA collaboration.

The clinic’s health care system electronic Point of Care (ePOC) plays a vital role in our patient management. It allows well-trained nurses to take on most treatment tasks and helps improve the quality of care. Our software developer Ross Hadingham explains the functioning and opportunities the software comes with.

In the second year of the pandemic we were also able to count on the support of our donors. This is reflected in very good income. Total expenditures remained stable, with 88.6% flowing directly into projects. We closed the 2021 financial year with a profit of CHF 1.8 million.

2021 our IT team continued to develop our patient database. Electronic transmission of lab results facilitates the work and helps improve the quality of data. Thanks to reliable data, our team can conduct research on HIV/Aids in Zimbabwe and improve data quality on a permanent basis..

For another year the Covid-19 pandemic had a great influence on activities at Newlands Clinic Training Centre. Thanks to online training, we educated more health care workers in HIV/Aids management than ever. Our Director of Training and Research, Dr Cleophas Chimbetete, gives an insight into the past year.

Our CEO Sabine Lüthy looks back onto our year of 2021. The unbroken and generous support from Switzerland made her especially grateful.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Newlands Clinic has been able to provide its patients with uninterrupted medical treatment and comprehensive care throughout 2021. With great success: never have there been more patients with a suppressed viral load.

Prof. Ruedi Lüthy reflects on last year's ups and downs. The corona pandemic had a huge impact on our work at Newlands Clinic. But thanks to our teams' engagement, we were able to secure HIV treatment for our patients the whole year.

Newlands Clinic is treating more than 7,000 patients with HIV. Thanks to our donors, we kept our doors open despite the corona pandemic. Read now what kept us busy during the past year.

2021 Annual Report

Everyday courageous decisions are necessary to master life in Zimbabwe. Thanks to your support, we are successfully doing so. But what does courage mean exactly? We asked our staff at Newlands Clinic this philosophical question.