Massive aid needed for Children with AIDS
The National Global Campaign on Children and AIDS is aware of the urgent need to massively upscale the response for children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS, and to mobilize the partnerships and resources necessary to do so. The Global Campaign has been prepared with all the key global [...]
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Massive aid needed for Children with AIDS
September 4th, 2010 
admin Addressing the issue of women and HIV/AIDS
September 4th, 2010 admin The Women’s Leadership Centre has launched a project on women and HIV/AIDS and also held a workshop on those issues from 12 to 14 October. The workshop was attended by 30 women living with or affected by HIV/AIDS from all over Namibia, and it will result in a storybook as well as a social reader [...]
HIV/AIDS, gender and the media
September 4th, 2010 admin PROGRAMME LAUNCHED TO ADDRESS
The Southern African Editors Forum (SAEF) and twelve organisations last week launched the Southern African Media Action Plan on HIV/AIDS & Gender (MAP).MAP is a three-year programme that brings together a unique partnership between the media industry, civil society and the international community that aims to improve the quality of media [...]
NAMCOL staff exposed to HIV/AIDS training
September 4th, 2010 admin HIV/AIDS training workshop for NAMCOL staff
Responding to the national fight against HIV/AIDS, the Namibia College of Open Learning (NAMCOL) launched an HIV/AIDS training workshop for its staff recently. As NAMCOL occupies a strategic position and the college influences many different sectors of society, it had to respond, according to the director of NAMCOL, Frances [...]
Media lag behind on HIV/AIDS and gender policies
September 4th, 2010 admin Media lag behind on HIV/AIDS and gender policies
Less than ten percent of media houses in Southern Africa have HIV/AIDS policies, and an even lower proportion have gender policies, according to a study conducted by Gender Links as part of the Media Action Plan (MAP) on HIV/AIDS and Gender, said Gender Links deputy director, Kubi [...]
Cycling team to spread HIV/AIDS awareness messages
September 4th, 2010 admin The Bicycling Empowerment Network Namibia (BEN Namibia) and its sponsors this week officially launched a cycling team, Team BEN Namibia, made up of top Namibian cyclists committed not only to the developing of the sport, but to preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Namibia.Sponsors include the U.S. Embassy through a grant from the U.S. President’s [...]
Corridor group launches workplace policy on HIV/AIDS
September 4th, 2010 admin The Walvis Bay Corridor Group HIV/AIDS Help Desk has launched a guide for its workplace policy on the epidemic.The group said in a statement the aim of the of the policy is to provide member companies with information on how to deal with the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the work environment in order to support and [...]
Transport sector faces uphill HIV/AIDS battle
September 4th, 2010 admin Despite positive steps being taken by the country’s transport sector in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the prevalence rate is on the increase, Minister of Works, Transport and Communication Joel Kaapanda said last week.Kaapanda said there is need for coordinated efforts in the fight against the deadly epidemic.Workers who operate in the transport sector [...]
Bicycle project helping AIDS care groups in rural areas
September 4th, 2010 admin Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN) says it is aiming to increase its capacity of supplying refurbished second bicycles for use by HIV/AIDS groups working in rural areas.BEN imports second hand bicycles and gives training to mechanics that are then employed to refurbish the bicycles. The bicycles are later sold at affordable prices to HIV/AIDS home based [...]
Caring for children affected and infected by HIV/Aids
September 4th, 2010 admin They are both unemployed, but Linda Elliot and her husband Patrick, have taken in HIV/AIDS orphans and those affected by the epidemic and given them a roof over their heads.Her house in Khomasdal is now an orphanage – a project, Elliot says, was inspired by God after she lost her job.Currently there are five children, [...]