The Ombetja Yehinga Organisation and Media Logistics, in collaboration with the Take Control Task Force, recently announced the planned launch of the CD ‘Vital’ which is the product of a nation-wide competition.
Artists from all over the country had been encouraged to create a song about HIV/AIDS in May and June 2004. Out of the 42 [...]

Health education at the Namdeb hospital in Oranjemund. Just as the employees are provided with training, HIV/AIDS infected employees are also provided with free Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART). Free ART treatment was made available to the employees in early 2003.

(PlusNews) – Analysts at Apt Associates reckon South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) will be 17% lower by 2010 than it would have been without AIDS, wiping US$22 billion off the country’s economy.
Financial analysts at ABSA bank, by contrast, estimate the shrinkage of GDP at 9.6% by 2015, while ING Barings put the figure at [...]

A giant bright yellow condom was the centre of attraction in Windhoek last Friday. Operated off the back of a large truck, the condom soared into the air as it inflated. Namibian civil society organisations ? operating in partnership with the Namibia Business Coalition on Aids (Nabcoa) – have kicked off with a series of [...]

PLUSNEWS – Zambian health experts on Friday heralded the results of clinical trials showing that a widely available antibiotic drug could dramatically cut AIDS-related deaths in children.
The trials, conducted in the capital Lusaka between 2001 and 2003, were backed by the UK’s Department for International Development to test co-trimoxazole, which was given to 540 HIV-positive [...]

Satires depicting the HIV/AIDS virus (left) and the human’s immune system entertained an audience last Friday at the launch of NABCOA’s Giant Condom in Windhoek. Among various plays that were performed during the occasion. A play on how the HIV-virus attack the human’s anti-body system and eventually destroying all the anti-bodies in the system. NABCOA [...]

JOHANNESBURG – HIV and AIDS in
southern Africa is under-reported, the voices of those most affected
are least heard, and the gender dimensions of the pandemic are not
well reflected, according to a study released here on World Press
Freedom Day.

The HIV and AIDS and Gender Baseline
Study, conducted by Gender Links and the Media Monitoring Project
covered 118 media houses [...]

A training opportunity for journalists on how to report on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and gender in the context of governance was offered from 19 to 23 September.
The training was aimed at establishing standards for media reporting and to increase the understanding of editors on these issues.
This training programme was run by the United Nations Population [...]

The Walvis Bay Corridor Group and the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) have signed a financing agreement for the Walvis Bay Corridor Group (WBCG) HIV/AIDS Help Desk.
The WBCG HIV/AIDS Help Desk was established in 2003 and is aimed at addressing HIV/AIDS issues within the transport sector and to support the implementation of the workplace policy [...]

Funds adding up to N$31000 have been made available to the Nyangana branch of the Catholic Health Services in Namibia within the framework of German/Namibian co-operation. The Nyangana Hospital is 100 km east of Rundu.
The objectives of the project funds are, amongst others, to provide psychological support to patients, to provide vegetables for the feeding [...]