GABORONE, 28 July (IRIN) – UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
has been urged by delegates attending a conference on scaling-up the response
to HIV/AIDS in Africa to act as a global champion for countries looking to develop
generic anti-AIDS drugs and stem the brain drain of health workers.

“One of the recommendations is that we need to ensure a
sustainable supply [...]

The
Fashion for Aids Orphans Extravaganza is combining art, classical music,
comedy, jewelry items and fashion for this fund raising event.

The purpose of the Christina Swart-Opperman
AIDS Orphan Foundation Trust is to uplift and improve the quality of life for
AIDS orphans in Namibia.
The situation of children orphaned by AIDS
in Namibia is becoming progressively worse. It is estimated that [...]

Eric Benjaminson, the
Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Windhoek, was the guest of honour
at the World AIDS Day event organised for soldiers at the Grootfontein Army
Headquarters.

The event was commemorated under the theme
“Leadership”, which Benjaminson described as calling on people to “be more
rigorous in our approaches to prevent the spread of HIV and [...]

After more than 20 years
of research and testing, medical researchers are still far from presenting the
world with probable evidence that an HIV/AIDS vaccine is possible. Their belief
in an HIV/AIDS vaccine remains just that: a hypothesis.

But medical researchers remain firm in their conviction that
an HIV/AID vaccine is the only preventative solution to the world.
This week, the [...]

By Pierre Mare
headspace@mweb.com.na
Apparently, it would never happen. Not to the individual, nor to the company. HIV AIDS was the one thing that everyone ignored. However, the strategy of avoidance and denial is now coming to a head. The impact of the disease is being felt everywhere, and the brand is not immune either.
The effects of [...]

The Ombetja Yehinga Organisation (OYO) and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) have
launched a project titled ‘Still Life’ that will help address such stereotyping
as AIDS kills and ‘once you are HIV positive, your life is a misery’.

Dr
Elisabeth Pape, Ambassador of the European Delegation to Namibia, Richard
Kamwi, the Minister of Health and Social Services, and Dr Philippe Talavera,
Director [...]

Gasenna
Berendt, a young woman living in Gobabis, decided to volunteer at Nawa Life
Trust to educate people and raise awareness on HIV/AIDS. She said it is a
hectic job and requires a lot of time, patience, willingness to work with
people, be considerate and accommodating.
Gasenna
Berendt is a volunteer at Nawa Life Trust.

Berendt, who is the Deputy Chairperson [...]

Fighting AIDS with creativity
?Our dreams, our hopes? is a new book by a grade 12 learner and 27 other learners from the Kunene Region. They are all learners at Braunfels Agriculture High School where the organisation Ombetja Yehinga has an AIDS Awareness Club. The book was initiated by Alpha Sililo who fear that the experience [...]

In 2003, an estimated 26,6 million Africans were living with HIV, including 3,2 million who became infected that year, according to the UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
(IRIN)-African church leaders have said they will make available church-supported health facilities and drugs used to lessen the severity of HIV/AIDS infection and become more involved in fighting the stigmatisation [...]

An extraordinary price war is breaking out in the market for AIDS drugs in
poor countries, as pharmaceutical giants seek to blunt a growing threat from
generic-drug companies and recoup some moral high ground amid the crippling
epidemic, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal this week.

At the end of 2000, an estimated 36.1 million people [...]