St Mary’s Hospital, Mariannhill

St Mary's Hospital, Mariannhill Serving some 750 000 people in Mariannhill – an impoverished rural and peri-urban area on the outskirts of Durban – St Mary's Hospital is the only private, government-aided Catholic Mission Hospital in South Africa. One-third of the people living in the area are HIV positive – the highest incidence of HIV in the country (and indeed, the world) – and 60% are unemployed. Amid sickness and despair, St Mary's Hospital is a beacon of hope and healing for the "poorest of the poor"