Cabinet has granted approval to the ministry of labour to implement the project known as HIV/AIDS in the work place. The project aims to address HIV/AIDS in the agricultural sector in collaboration with Project Hope, an NGO, and Futures Group, a research group, both based in the United States.According to a statement from Cabinet, it [...]

Former Zambian President, Dr Kenneth Kaunda (left), was in Namibia this week on a four-day visit mainly connected with HIV/Aids related projects and organisations. The State House delegated the Minister of Health and Social Services, Richard Kamwi (right), to coordinate the visit. After meeting with the founding father, Dr Sam Nujoma, and with President Hifikepunye [...]

Africa’s HIV/AIDS researchers will meet in Cape Town this week for a top-level international conference to discuss new ways of dealing with the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This will be the second African conference on ?Social aspects of HIV/AIDS research? that will be held from 9 to 12 May at the Cape Town International Convention [...]

Significantly more young women than men are now being infected by HIV/ AIDS as violence against women and girls fuels the spread of the pandemic, said Amnesty International this week in the report called ?Women, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights? published ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.”The increasing spread of [...]

African women, civil society, professionals, and policy
makers from the African continent who
participated in the ‘African Women’s Regional Consultation on Women’s
and Rights and HIV/Aids in Africa’, in Johannesburg, South Africa, are deeply
concerned that despite various interventions aimed at prevention, care, support
and treatment, the global pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on
the lives of women and [...]

Namibia’s four commercial banks and members of the Bankers Association of Namibia (BAN) have thrown their weight behind the national HIV/AIDS testing initiatives by being the first to participate in the sampling process.
Heads of the four commercial banks in Namibia who have taken the first initiative in the HIV/Aids prevalence survey: Mpumzi Pupuma (Standard Bank), [...]

“I am HIV positive. Myself I have survived rape and other
forms of abuse. I still live under the power of men and the institutions they
run to perpetuate the oppression of women.” These were the words of Khensani
Mavasa, speaking at the opening of the United Nations Assembly Special Session
(UNGASS) Review Meeting this past June.

The South African [...]

The Venancius AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children Foundation has launched the second Namibia HIV/AIDS Hero Awards in order to encourage the nation to stand up and combat stigma against those who live with the disease.
The event, which will take place on 29 November, aims to bring together a union of people living with HIV and [...]