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 [...]

Shell has joined forces with the Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) Fund to promote road safety this coming festive season by building a permanent structure for a roadblock in Karibib.
Shell has supported temporary roadblock structures at the site over the past two years through the MVA’s Xupifa Eemwenyo road safety awareness campaign.
Speaking at the MVA fund-raising [...]

Glitzy do brings relief for hundreds of orphans
The Fashion for Aids Orphans Extravaganza, which took place at the Windhoek Country Club Resort and Casino last Friday, raised N$83 000 for the Christina Swart-Opperman AIDS Orphan Foundation Trust. This trust is the brainchild of a previous Namibian Businesswoman of the Year, Dr Christina Swart-Opperman. The fashion [...]

The Christina Swart-Opperman AIDS Orphan Foundation Trust raised N$260,954 from 55 companies and individuals during a fundraising business breakfast held on 9 October.
Dr Christina Swart-Opperman receives a cheque donation from Cassius Moetie, Manager of Corporate Communications at First National Bank.
This money will be used to continue with feeding
programmes at various schools, as well as the [...]

The Walvis Bay based Walvis Bay Corridor Group’s Peer Educators Support Group Forum recently conducted a five-day campaign to celebrate the effectiveness of the condom in preventing unintended pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
The awareness campaign was organised as a curtain raiser to the National Condom Use Day.
The group designed and implemented the [...]

The Windhoek Country Club Resort and Casino has made a material and financial donation to the Christina Swart-Opperman (CSO) Aids Orphan Foundation Trust. The donation of N$29 500,00 as well as blankets, towels and duvets for at least 30 children was initiated by Mr Tony Boucher.
With the cash donation, some of the 900 needy children [...]

GENEVA – The State of Business Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa, a new study by the World Economic Forum and the World Bank released this week, shows how 27 countries are supporting businesses in addressing HIV/AIDS.
At least 20 coalitions exist in Sub-Saharan Africa today with more than 16 having been established in the last five years [...]

After numerous mini-surveys on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the transport sector, the Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication, has finally asked the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) to find competent individuals or organisation to conduct a study.
Adverts for expression of interests were placed in newspapers last week calling for “the services of international or Namibian [...]

Marie du Plessis of Bank Windhoek visited the Venancius Rukero Aids Orphans and Vulnerable Children Foundation and met some of the students that are currently assisting Venancius with the organisation of the 2006 Namibia HIV/Aids Hero Awards. Venancius Rukero is a former street child and has been HIV positive since 1995. He completed his secondary [...]

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is expanding around the world, UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced in a report this week. The most hit region is sub-Saharan Africa with 65% of the estimated 4.3 million new infections in 2006.
UNAIDS and WHO said despite an increase in antiretroviral treatment, which reached more than one million [...]