The Catholic Health Care Association (CATHCA) is a faith-based health care organization founded in 1988, and an umbrella body for Catholic health care services in South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland.

It is an associate body of the Southern African Catholic Bishop’s Conference. It represents 2 hospitals, 38 clinics, 16 hospices, 8 orphanages, 8 multi purpose health care centres, 6 health training institutions and more than 80 home based care projects. These make up a significant part of the non-governmental health care service in Southern Africa.

CATHCA’s vision is to enable the provision of high-quality health care services to all, particularly the poor and marginalised, in Southern Africa, in the spirit and service of Christ.

CATHCA’s mission is to affirm, develop, support and strengthen both individual health care workers and an evolving Catholic health care network, in conjunction with all other health care role-players.

CATHCA serves all people regardless of religion, race, language or gender affiliation. It is a non-profit and a public benefit organisation. Its members work in some of the most remote and poor areas of Southern Africa.

CATHCA funds home-based care training for rural caregivers, provides networking opportunities, assists with capacity building and skills training, advocacy and ethical issues, provides health information and runs national and regional conferences and workshops for its members.

It currently receives funding from the National Lottery, Bristol Myers Squibb, the Canadian International Aid Commission, Misereor, the Global Fund Against Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIV/AIDS, and from a major anonymous donor in the Netherlands.

Operates in: All of South Africa
Established in: July 1988

Non-Profit Organisation Number: 006-174
Public Benefit Organisation Number: 130003636
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Contact person: Yvonne Morgan
Phone: 011 880 4022
Fax: 011 880 4084
Email:

Website: www.cathca.co.za

Physical address: 7 The Haven, St Vincent School for the Deaf, Jellicoe St, Melrose, Johannesburg
Postal address: Box 52015, Saxonwold, 2132