On World Aids Day 2004 (1 December), the Red Cross organisations all aimed to raise awareness and joined in a combined effort to fight the HIV/Aids pandemic. The Red Cross and Red Crescent family make up the world’s largest humanitarian organizations and ‘whispered and shouted their messages in all countries’, said Razia Essack-Kauaria, Secretary general [...]
AIDS – the Namibian perspective
September 4th, 2010 
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September 4th, 2010 admin A colourful procession which included drums, satires and artists depicting the traditional African procession common to west and central Africa was used to attract people’s attention to NABCOA’s giant condom.
To mark this year’s AIDS Day, NABCOA organised various activities a week before 1 December to raise awareness. The condom was deemed applicable since this year’s [...]
Posted in Africa Tags: Lironga Eparu, NABCOA, The International Committee of the Red Cross, The Namibian Red Cross, The Red Cross, Walk of Hope, World Aids Day Comments OffOtjiruze day-care centre provides home for AIDS orphans
September 4th, 2010 admin The Otjiruze Children’s Fund Namibia, which was founded to provide a safe haven for AIDS orphans, says the biggest challenge it currently faces is that most parents and caretakers they deal with, do not have the money to pay for their children’s school fees.
The children who are currently under the care of the Otjiruze Children [...]
Posted in Africa Tags: Otjiruze Guest Farm, Sanne Minke, The Lions Club Windhoek Alte Feste, The Otjiruze Children’s Fund Namibia Comments OffKick AIDS Out tourney in Mariental
September 4th, 2010 admin SCORE Namibia, a nongovernmental organisation that uses sports as a tool for development, will be hosting the annual ?Kicking AIDS Out? Youth Sport Festival from 10 to 13 April in Mariental.The festival celebrates the achievements of local volunteers in building leadership and sport activities in their communities. The event includes tournaments for boys U17 football, [...]
Seal sings at Sun Aids initiative
September 4th, 2010 admin Sun City is to be host to a major international arts festival during winter.Sun International this week announced POSITIVE – a unique fusion of music, fashion, art and cuisine with a world-class line-up of creative talent led by the multi Grammy award winning vocalist and songwriter Seal, taking place at Sun City from 8 to [...]
Red Cross to launch five-year HIV and AIDS plan
September 4th, 2010 admin The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in southern Africa will launch its new five-year HIV and AIDS strategy at a symposium under the theme ?Caring together?Come closer? scheduled for 6 and 7 April in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The symposium, which coincides with the World Health Day, comes in the wake [...]
Calling on musicians for input to produce HIV/AIDS CD
September 4th, 2010 admin Ombetja Yehinga, an HIV/AIDS non-governmental organisation in collaboration with Take Control Media Campaign Media Logistics and French music producer Christian Polloni, is producing a compilation HIV/AIDS CD for world Aids Day Campaign 2004.The aim of the CD is to create HIV/AIDS awareness with songs by Namibians for Namibians. The songs should have HIV/AIDS related themes. [...]
Businesses mobilised to assist AIDS orphans
September 4th, 2010 admin Doctor Christina Swart-Opperman, the founder of the Christina Swart-Opperman (CSO) AIDS Orphan Foundation Trust, organised a fund-raising breakfast, a teachers’ cricket coaching clinic and a cricket clinic for AIDS orphans last week.She said she chose the theme ?Business Care? for the fund-raising breakfast to show that business people were coming out to support and care [...]
AIDS resource centre opens in Windhoek
September 4th, 2010 admin Deputy minister of health Richard Kamwi opened a resource centre, which will deal with HIV/AIDS related materials, in Windhoek this week.The resource centre is a joint initiative of the Namibia Network of AIDS Service Organisations (NANASO) and SAfAIDS, a southern Africa regional HIV/AIDS information service based in Zimbabwe.NANASO, which was formed in 1991, provides a [...]
Kenneth Kaunda at Polytech Aids Awareness Day
September 4th, 2010 admin The Polytechnic of Namibia held its annual HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign last week, with the theme ?Protect the Youth, They are the Future.? The highlight of the event was the keynote speech by former Zambian president, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda.Dr. Kaunda said, ?It is particularly important that we are meeting at this institution of learning to exchange [...]