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		<title>Men encouraged to go for HIV/AIDS testing</title>
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		<title>EU help in the  fight of HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The network of European Union (EU) delegations in southern Africa, known as ?Action Against AIDS?, met in Windhoek last week for their 5th annual meeting to share experiences and best practice, acquaint themselves with new research findings, and to develop a joint plan of action for the year to come.Sub &#8211; Saharan Africa remains the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FNCC hosts HIV/AIDS exhibition</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you condense seven years of learning into a package that is usable for the future? And how do you ensure that people know that such a package exists? As the Yelula/U-khâi project draws to a close, it has become important to ensure that the learnings and products from the project are taken up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A world without Aids</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geneva ? Nearly 30 donors to the Global Fund met this week in the Hague, Netherlands, to review global health progress and assess funding needs for the period 2011 to 2013. osted by the government of the Netherlands, this is a preparatory meeting ahead of a pledging conference for the Global Fund at the UN [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSO Aids Foundation announces board of trustees</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christina Swart-Opperman Aids-Orphan Foundation Trust this week announced its new board of trustees. The members are:Top (left to right) Dr Christina Swart-Opperman, founder of the Trust; Desérè Lundon-Müller, patron of the Trust Bottom (left to right) Jerry Muadinohamba. Ambassador Tonata Itenge and Gersom Katjimune . Dr Christina Swart-Opperman, Economist Businesswoman of the Year 2002, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS decreasing among expectant mothers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HIV/AIDS prevalence among expectant mothers in Namibia is decreasing since 2002, Prime Minister Nahas Angula said this week.?It is indeed very encouraging to see that our efforts over many years of fighting HIV/AIDS in Namibia are indeed bearing fruits,? he said.Angula said this during the annual commemoration of World AIDS Day. ?The health sector [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retirement, medical,  long term insurance industries hit hard by AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country?s retirement, long-term insurance and medical industries will face a serious strain on their operations due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. A study done by the Bank of Namibia in collaboration with the World Bank and Metropolitan South Africa on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the non-banking financial sector in Namibia, has recommended that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gala dinner in aid of Aids orphans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Gala dinner to raise funds for charity is being organised by the Christina Swart-Opperman Aids Orphan Foundation Trust. The Trust said the dinner is scheduled to take place early next month aimed to raise further funds to help in its goal of helping orphaned children.The dinner, themed Our Beautiful Country, Our Beautiful Children will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS vaccine can provide some protection against HIV infection</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(PLUSNEWS)-A six-year clinical trial in Thailand has yielded the first ever evidence that an AIDS vaccine can provide some protection against HIV infection. The trial team in Bangkok, Thailand?s capital, announced on 24 September that rates of HIV infection were 31 percent lower in trial participants who received the vaccine than in those who received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS medical fund for industry</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS patients are not the favourite members of medical aid funds. Their treatment is so expensive that those with medical aid schemes have limited health benefits &#8211; so limited that they often have to their treatment since they cannot afford to pay it out of their pockets.The ?Health is Vital Risk Equalisation Fund? was established [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rewarding the soldiers battling AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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In celebrating the achievements of three years of co-operation, the Namibia Network of Aids Service Organisations (NANASO) and the German Development Service (DED &#8211; Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst) awarded NANASO a certificate for &#8216;best practice&#8217; this week.Issues listed during the press conference were the major achievements of NANASO, the umbrella body for non-governmental organisations (NGOs), community-based organisations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outlawing discrimination against AIDS sufferers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With World AIDS Day this week, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies urged governments to honour their promise to write legislation that outlaws discrimination against HIV/AIDS-positive people.?This World AIDS Day, the Namibia Red Cross is reminding communities of the contribution made by people living with HIV/AIDS. Let us embrace people living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outlawing discrimination against AIDS sufferers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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With World AIDS Day this week, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies urged governments to honour their promise to write legislation that outlaws discrimination against HIV/AIDS-positive people.?This World AIDS Day, the Namibia Red Cross is reminding communities of the contribution made by people living with HIV/AIDS. Let us embrace people living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meatco dealing with World AIDS Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employees of Meatco at the Okahandja abattoir, will observe an in-house World AIDS Day were the main speaker will be a seven-year-old HIV/AIDS orphan.Meatco hosts an HIV/AIDS Day every year since 2002. During the event, employees are encouraged to take part in information sessions, awareness campaigns and to share information on HIV/AIDS prevention.This year it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rounding up the troops in the battle against AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rounding up the troops in the battle against AIDS 	
The NANASO Directory of NGOs, CBOs and Faith Based Organisations active in the Field of HIV/AIDS highlights the details of over 160 civil society organisations active in the field of HIV/AIDS ? their background, objectives, where they work and their detailed programmes.Launching the directory, Minister of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coordination can stretch AIDS funds further</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A projected 200,000 or roughly 10% of the population of Namibia will need antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the near future.With an HIV prevalence of 10.6% amongst young women, an adult HIV prevalence of 15% and 2 700 newly infected children in 2008/09, the cost of a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS response is expensive (about N$2 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive aid needed for Children with AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massive aid needed for Children with AIDS 	
The National Global Campaign on Children and AIDS is aware of ? ? the urgent need to massively upscale the response for children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS, and to mobilize the partnerships and resources necessary to do so. The Global Campaign has been prepared with all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addressing the issue of women and HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Women&#8217;s Leadership Centre has launched a project on women and HIV/AIDS and also held a workshop on those issues from 12 to 14 October. The workshop was attended by 30 women living with or affected by HIV/AIDS from all over Namibia, and it will result in a storybook as well as a social reader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US$3.7 billion to fight AIDS, malaria, TB</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[International donors pledged a total of US$3.7 billion (N$24 billion) to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the two-year period of 2006 and 2007.Namibia is one of the beneficiaries of the Fund and has already received donations in excess of N$100 million.?The pledges made here today will go a long way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS, gender and the media</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROGRAMME LAUNCHED TO ADDRESS 	
The Southern African Editors Forum (SAEF) and twelve organisations last week launched the Southern African Media Action Plan on HIV/AIDS &#38; Gender (MAP).MAP is a three-year programme that brings together a unique partnership between the media industry, civil society and the international community that aims to improve the quality of media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAMCOL staff exposed to HIV/AIDS training</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS training workshop for NAMCOL staff 	
Responding to the national fight against HIV/AIDS, the Namibia College of Open Learning (NAMCOL) launched an HIV/AIDS training workshop for its staff recently. As NAMCOL occupies a strategic position and the college influences many different sectors of society, it had to respond, according to the director of NAMCOL, Frances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media lag behind on HIV/AIDS and gender policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media lag behind on HIV/AIDS and gender policies 	
Less than ten percent of media houses in Southern Africa have HIV/AIDS policies, and an even lower proportion have gender policies, according to a study conducted by Gender Links as part of the Media Action Plan (MAP) on HIV/AIDS and Gender, said Gender Links deputy director, Kubi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drafting a HIV/AIDS policy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(IRIN) &#8211; The Namibian government is drafting its first national 	
(IRIN) &#8211; The Namibian government is drafting its first national policy on HIV/AIDS and hopes to complete it by World AIDS Day on 1 December.At the behest of the government, a draft policy was compiled by the AIDS law unit of the Legal Assistance Centre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cycling team to spread HIV/AIDS awareness messages</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bicycling Empowerment Network Namibia (BEN Namibia) and its sponsors this week officially launched a cycling team, Team BEN Namibia, made up of top Namibian cyclists committed not only to the developing of the sport, but to preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Namibia.Sponsors include the U.S. Embassy through a grant from the U.S. President?s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corridor group launches workplace policy on HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Walvis Bay Corridor Group HIV/AIDS Help Desk has launched a guide for its workplace policy on the epidemic.The group said in a statement the aim of the of the policy is to provide member companies with information on how to deal with the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the work environment in order to support and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mines ministry tackles HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mines ministry tackles HIV/AIDS
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has taken cognisance of the impact of HIV/AIDS and this has lead to the ministry creating a platform for information sharing and dissemination to increase awareness among its staff members.?We value our human capacity strongly and therefore commit ourselves to taking every step and measure possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More action against HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Namibian President, Hifikepunye Pohamba, officially launched the Namibia Red Cross Society&#8217;s &#8220;HIV and AIDS Action Now&#8221; booklet in Windhoek earlier in June.The head of state said the HIV/AIDS pandemic had touched all communities in the country, and its deadly march continued to affect Namibians of all ages. &#8220;This means that our national response in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business sees AIDS as government baby</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a perception in the business community that HIV/AIDS is a problem that the government and NGOs can better address, recent research has revealed.The research has shown that even though HIV/AIDS is perceived as a threat to business operations, there is reluctance on the part of the companies to address HIV/AIDS issues.The findings are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS reversing development gains</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AIDS reversing development gains
(IRIN) &#8211; Development gains made during the 1980s and 1990s in Southern Africa are being rapidly reversed by the triple threat of HIV/AIDS, erratic weather and weakened government capacity, requiring a new approach to humanitarian aid, says a new UN report.The inter-agency ?Regional Humanitarian Strategic Framework for Southern Africa&#8217;, born out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Mutual launches HIV/AIDS workplace policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Mutual Namibia this week launched its HIV/AIDS Workplace policy to its staff members.The purpose of the policy is to provide clarity on the company?s views on HIV and Aids as well as on employees? rights in this context.Mr Gerson Kamatuka, manager human resources at Old Mutual said: ?Old Mutual Namibia decided to commit itself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-aged/young people not serious about HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mid-aged/young people not serious about HIV/AIDS
People aged between 25 to 29 years, as well as those between 35 and 39 years seem not to have taken the HIV/AIDS threat seriously and changed their sexual behaviours or patterns in response. According the statistics revealed by the Minister of Health and Social Services, Richard Kamwi, the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Builders commit to tackle Aids among own workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Construction Industries Federation (CIF) is an employer?s body acting in the interests of the industry, according to Mr Pieter Postema, managing director of Stocks Building Africa and vice president of the CIF.This week he addressed various issues currently facing the construction industry. The most pressing issues of the day, according to Postema, are HIV/Aids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS conference concludes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 HIV/AIDS Implementers? meeting concluded early this week after four days of discussions, presentations, and plenary sessions.Richard Kamwi, Minister of Health and Social Services, presided over the closing. First Lady Penehupifo Pohamba delivered closing remarks at the conference, marking the finish of another successful Implementers? meeting. They were joined by ambassador Dennise Mathieu, US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Link between HIV/AIDS and food production questioned</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link between HIV/AIDS and food production questioned
(IRIN) &#8211; The link between HIV/AIDS and hunger in rural communities has received a great deal of attention in Southern Africa, where HIV/AIDS seems to have added a new dimension to the region&#8217;s four-year-long food crisis.But a new report has argued that although HIV/AIDS constitutes a humanitarian catastrophe, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aids fighters visit villagers by pedal power</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Misanet) &#8211; Namibia&#8217;s Ministry of Health and Social Services received a donation of 100 bicycles and 100,000 condoms from the People&#8217;s Republic of China. The donation is to enable the government to educate people in the remote parts of the country about the disease, according to a media report. Health Minister Dr Libertina Amathila said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SADC leaders urge states to fight HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) meeting in Malawi urged member countries to strengthen joint efforts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS in the region, the news agency Inter Press Service reported on Tuesday. President Sam Nujoma, current chairman of SADC, said at the opening of the summit in Blantyre that the HIV/AIDS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising AIDS awareness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) recently donated two cellphones to Philippi Namibia; a welfare organisation that trains and equips councillors to work with HIV/AIDS infected people and families in various social structures in Namibia.ince 1998, Philippi Namibia contributed to raise the awareness of the problem of AIDS in Namibia. Namibia has one of the highest infection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NABCOA addressing the HIV/AIDS issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NABCOA commissioned a study to assess options and scenarios for HIV/AIDS risk cover for low-income employees within NABCOA member companies. The recommendations were discussed on Tuesday morning at a NABCOA breakfast meeting, and participants in the discussion were from the left, the Ministry of Finance PS, Calle Schlettwein, Sven Thieme, chairman of NABCOA and CEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NABCOA addressing the HIV/AIDS issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NABCOA commissioned a study to assess options and scenarios for HIV/AIDS risk cover for low-income employees within NABCOA member companies. The recommendations were discussed on Tuesday morning at a NABCOA breakfast meeting, and participants in the discussion were from the left, the Ministry of Finance PS, Calle Schlettwein, Sven Thieme, chairman of NABCOA and CEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food security answer to the fight against HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are vulnerable to HIV infection at two levels, which are social vulnerability as well as biological vulnerability.Social vulnerability is caused by poverty and ignorance, while biological vulnerability is caused by poor nutrition, said Stephen Muliokela, director of the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust (GART) in Zambia.?Biological vulnerability means that even though people are on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS hampers gender disparity in education</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS hampering
(IRIN) &#8211; HIV/AIDS and poverty are the stumbling blocks to achieving the target of gender parity in most Southern African classrooms by 2015, according to the UN Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF).The latest UNICEF report, released this week, indicated that school enrolment statistics in five Southern African countries &#8211; three of them with extremely high HIV/AIDS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS adds new threat to TB</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS adds new dimension to TB threat
(IRIN) &#8211; HIV/AIDS has changed the face of Africa&#8217;s tuberculosis (TB) epidemic, which is now reaching alarming proportions, a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report, released on World TB Day, said.While most areas of the world have managed to curb the spread of TB, incidence rates have tripled since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information on AIDS at NANASO</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/information-on-aids-at-nanaso/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FW: NANASO/SAfAIDS Resource Centre
The Namibia Network of AIDS Service Organisations (NANASO), as an umbrella body for all the NGOs and CBOs active in the field of HIV/AIDS, feels that the public is entitled to have access to information on the pandemic.The NANASO resource centre offers material, which covers areas such as HIV/AIDS, including books, papers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture studied</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New thinking needed on impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture
Johannesburg (IRIN) &#8211; The impact of HIV/AIDS on agriculture in Southern Africa is now well recognised. But a new report is calling for a rethink of current views on the effects of the epidemic and more concrete and specific regional responses.Despite current thinking on the effects of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African youths draw up plan to combat AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[African youths draw up plan to combat AIDS
(IRIN) &#8211; An African youth organisation this week held a conference in the Rwandan capital Kigali, to draw up a plan of action for the continent&#8217;s youth to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS.&#8221;Our mission is to initiate, consolidate and strengthen the capacity and response of African youth to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casino supports AIDS campaign</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[IM Kalahari
The Kalahari Sands and Casino has donated funds to the Catholic Aids Action (CAA) and the Christina Swart-Oppermann Aids Foundation. The two organisations received a cheque of N$20000 from the Kalahari Sands&#8217; general manager, John Airey (left), and marketing manager Tania Reid (centre) on Friday, 4 March. Christina Swart-Oppermann is on the right. CAA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS death toll could reach 80 million by 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AIDS death toll could reach 80 million by 2025
Addis Ababa, PLUSNEWS &#8211; More than 80 million people living in Africa could die from AIDS by 2025 unless concerted actions are taken that could save some of these lives, a new report by UNAIDS said on Friday.Entitled, ?AIDS in Africa: Three scenarios to 2025?, the report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS daunting task &#8211; US envoy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AIDS daunting task &#8211; US envoy
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has been described as a daunting threat that should be regarded as everyone?s problem.Mission director for USAID in Namibia Gary Newton said in Keetmanshoop last week that society at large must unite to defeat the epidemic. Newton was speaking during the launch of the New Start VCT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invest in human resources through (AIDS) programmes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invest in human resources through (AIDS) programmes
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) will hold the course ?Managing HIV/AIDS Programmes at the Workplace? from 2 to 13 May in Nairobi, Kenya. HIV/AIDS workplace programmes maximise investment in human resources development according to experts.Organisations are challenged with having to manage the large number of their staff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great strides made in fight against AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namibia was chosen to host the fifth HIV/AIDS Implementers? Meeting as it has turned the tide in the fight against HIV/AIDS, said Dr Norbert Foster, deputy permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Services.He told journalists this week that the country?s prevalence rate has gone down to about 17% and a large proportion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting AIDS with creativity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PICTURE: [Scan in the hard copy]
?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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United front on HIV/AIDS unveiled</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collaborating with development partners is an important step towards the establishment of an effective national monitoring and evaluation system that will assess progress made towards minimising the spread of HIV/AIDS and its impact on the population.The National Multi-Sectoral Monitoring and Evaluation plan for Namibia was launched on 25 September.Officiating at the launch, Minister of Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government endorses UN Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Namibian government has noted the report of the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS and endorsed the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS of the 60th United Nations General Assembly for implementation in Namibia, a statement from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said this week.Minister of Health and Social Services Richard Kamwi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US donation to avert AIDS crisis</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US will provide Namibia with N$350 million this year to assist the country&#8217;s HIV/AIDS programme.Gary Newton, mission director of USAID Namibia said this week a further increase in assistance to the N$480 million is expected next year.?We expect funding for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) care and support to increase next year,? said Newton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business responds to AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Namibian Business Coalition on AIDS (NABCOA) was due today to host a business breakfast meeting on HIV/AIDS in Windhoek under the theme ?Roles and Responsibilities of Business Leadership?.NABCOA said in a statement the meeting would be hosted in collaboration with the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC). Dr Brian Brink, the group senior vice-president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major boost for Okakarara HIV/AIDS sport tourney</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 	The Okakarara Sports Association HIV/AIDS tournament received a major boost last week when Methealth Namibia Administrators announced that it would co-sponsor the event that takes place in September.The two-day tournament, which aims at developing such sporting codes as football and netball, runs from 9 to 10 September.Last week Methealth Namibia Administrators donated N$2500 towards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summit aids as revelation for 2005 Economist Businesswoman</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 	Amalia Schmidt, the 2005 Economist Businesswoman of the Year, who returned last month from the Global Summit of Women, described it as a gathering of high calibre participants bringing together outstanding women in business, professionals and government women leaders from all corners of the globe.The summit ended in Cairo, Egypt on 12 June.Schmidt paid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-sectoral training on HIV/Aids kick-starts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deputy Prime Minister Dr Libertina Amathila officially launched a multi-sectoral training on HIV/Aids that aims at incorporating the epidemic into daily operations and programmes this week.?This is very crucial, and I commend the organisers of this training for pressing ahead in ensuring that our public sector response to HIV/Aids is meaningful and impact-oriented,? she said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transport sector faces uphill HIV/AIDS battle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite positive steps being taken by the country&#8217;s transport sector in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the prevalence rate is on the increase, Minister of Works, Transport and Communication Joel Kaapanda said last week.Kaapanda said there is need for coordinated efforts in the fight against the deadly epidemic.Workers who operate in the transport sector [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bicycle project helping AIDS care groups in rural areas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San trained on HIV/AIDS, domestic violence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the first week of May, development experts from German Development Service (DED) organized a two-day workshop in Mangetti Dune (Tsumkwe District) on HIV/AIDS and domestic violence for the local San community.Two facilitators from Tsumeb Woman and Child Protection Unit and Tsumeb Women and Children?s Centre, an organization supported technically and financially also by DED, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caring for children affected and infected by HIV/Aids</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[They are both unemployed, but Linda Elliot and her husband Patrick, have taken in HIV/AIDS orphans and those affected by the epidemic and given them a roof over their heads.Her house in Khomasdal is now an orphanage &#8211; a project, Elliot says, was inspired by God after she lost her job.Currently there are five children, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS Catastrophe looms over children</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in a sprawling auditorium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with several hundred elementary and high school students they had discussed HIV/AIDS with an almost frantic intensity. The children had cross-examined him, laughed, jeered and even cried, says Stephen Lewis, Special Envoy of the U.N. Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Africa, in a statement.?The questions and answers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methealth launches HIV/AIDS outreach programme</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To assist in combating the Namibian HIV/AIDS pandemic, Methealth Namibia has implemented an extensive HIV/AIDS Outreach Program for Namibia Medical Care and Bankmed Namibia medical aid fund members, the company said in a statement.The main aim of this programme was to assist members suffering from HIV/AIDS, in conjunction with their doctors, to receive the correct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heading up to World Aids Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown to World Aids Day on Wednesday, 1 December, has started. World Aids Day is a project of the United Nations to ensure that HIV/AIDS remains on the radar of serious global issues.The day is commemorated by governments and business communities worldwide.The main aim of declaring a World Aids Day is twofold; to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevention is the key in fighting HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To mark World AIDS Day and as the theme of the commemoration a giant condom was erected in the centre of the city. The organisers of the World AIDS Day thought the condom would be appropriate to mark the day ? ? since our attention seems to have shifted to care and treatment?, say Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS concert begins over the weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kalahari Sands Hotel and Casino will host a concert this Saturday, 27 November, to raise awareness of the impact of AIDS in Namibia.Proceeds from the concerts will be donated to selected AIDS organisations.?We plan to roll out the African red carpet for maestro performers and composers such as Johnny Clegg, PJ Powers and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Windhoek? World AIDS Day activities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Windhoek?s organised activities to coincide with World AIDS Day on 1 December started with a build-up programme on Wednesday, 24 November. The activities are aimed at raising awareness of HIV/AIDS among employees, from the mayor down to the general workers.For employees, senior executives and managers of the City were expected to devote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All women face higher AIDS risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) this week shows that the number of women living with HIV has risen in every region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Asia, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In East Asia, there was a 56% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence against women fuels spread of HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.&#8221;The increasing spread of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS crisis has devastating proportions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namibia is facing an HIV/AIDS crisis of devastating proportions. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is considered the single most important threat to sustainable human development and meeting the medium and longer-term goals of the Millennium Declaration and Vision 2030.The above observation is based in the first Millennium Development Goals report that was released recently.According to the report, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS can be overcome &#8211; UN?s Millennium Development Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Based on reporting by the UN?s Regional Information Network)
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) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Namdeb policy on HIV/Aids &#8211; Project Eluwa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project Eluwa, introduced in April 2001 to address the impact of HIV/Aids on the Namdeb workforce, has achieved a decrease in the number of HIV infections.This project is Namdeb&#8217;s HIV/Aids awareness programme aimed to develop and implement a broad HIV/Aids and life-threatening disease policy as well as a clear strategy to manage the impact of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New AIDS care centre opened</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a step geared at bringing care, support and treatment to individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the Oshikuku area, an HIV/AIDS Integrated Services Centre was inaugurated last week. The new centre was inaugurated with support from the US Government?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.The Oshikuku Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT), Prevention of Mother-to-Child-transmission (PMTCT) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children orphaned by AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/children-orphaned-by-aids-2/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 	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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rural effects of HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading members of the global HIV/AIDS community and African NGOs met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week to discuss the impact of HIV/AIDS on Africa&#8217;s rural populations.The meeting was convened by the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA), a body set up last year to track the long-term impact of the pandemic in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion for Aids Orphans Extravaganza</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/fashion-for-aids-orphans-extravaganza-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new HIV/Aids testing centre is inaugurated in Oshakati</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 	The Minister of Health and Social Services Dr Libertina Amathila inaugurated the Tonateni New Start Centre in Oshakati. The centre was constructed with the aid from the European Union. According to Father Franz Houben of Catholic Aids Action the centre will help in the fight against HIV/Aids by educating young people. The centre is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give information to rural areas to help fight HIV/Aids</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 	?I tested positive on 29 July 2000 at Katutura clinic, after my baby passed away [earlier] in January,? says Ester Abraham. That admission had the attention of every person in the audience including the Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Libertine Amathila, the EU Ambassador to Namibia, Hon Antonious Bruiser, and Hon Hebb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS fight requires team work- Gurirab</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Theo Ben Gurirab has described the opening of the HIV/AIDS testing centre in Rundu as part of the country&#8217;s collective fight to contain and defeat the HIV/AIDS pandemic.The centre in Rundu, which was opened last week, is part of what is known as the ?New Start HIV/AIDS Voluntary Testing Centres? operated by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSO Aids Orphan Foundation Trust keeps kiddies warm this winter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christina Swart-Opperman Aids Orphan Foundation Trust held its ?Winter Warmer Initiative? at the Safari Hotel on 28 April in which it handed over food, blankets, shoes and clothes to the different projects under its support.The initiative was also aimed at showing appreciation to all its business partners, who have sponsored its different projects.The main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion for Aids Orphans Extravaganza</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/fashion-for-aids-orphans-extravaganza-3/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The situation of children orphaned by AIDS in Namibia is becoming progressively worse. Currently it is estimated by the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MHSS) that as at 2001 there were an estimated 82 671 orphans in Namibia, of which 50% were AIDS orphans. This ratio is predicted to rise to 75% by 2005 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion for AIDS Orphans Extravaganza</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/fashion-for-aids-orphans-extravaganza-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 	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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS pandemic undermines productivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The loss of skilled workers and managers through the AIDS pandemic is threatening to undermine productivity and is threatening the capacity of nations to deliver essential goods and services for decades to come.Minister of labour Marlene Mungunda said this week that the scale of infections means that care and treatment are of vital concern but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Namibian Fashion Designers against HIV/Aids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crème de la crème of Namibian and international fashions designers have teamed up in an extravagant fashion theatre to create awareness of HIV/Aids.Designers Sweetness Ndwandwa-Mubita, Liezl Louw, Cynthia Schimming, Melanie Harteveld Becker and Wilmien Venter will state their viewpoint on this pandemic and other issues.  The team includes 26 models, featuring Miss UNAM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU gives N$25 million to Namibia toward HIV/Aids programme</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission made N$25 million available to Namibian government to start the HIV/Aids Response Capacity Development Programme, expected to come on stream in October this year. The financing agreement with the EU was signed in Windhoek, on Tuesday this week, by the National Planning Commission (NPC).According to the EU Ambassador to Namibia, Antonious Brueser, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS counselling centre in Rehoboth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rehoboth New Start Centre, which provides affordable, voluntary counselling and testing for HIV / AIDS, was officially inaugurated last week by the deputy minister of health and social services, Richard Kamwi and Bishop Zephania Kameeta of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.Similar centres have been opened in major centres in Namibia and are regarded as vital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refugees show positive response to AIDS education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experts from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR says refugees generally have a significantly lower HIV infection rate than their host communities.A study conducted among pregnant women in more than 20 African refugee camps indicated that in five of the seven countries surveyed, refugees had a significantly lower HIV infection rate than the surrounding populations. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenneth Kaunda at Polytech Aids Awareness Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS resource centre opens in Windhoek</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top HIV/AIDS researchers seek African solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Businesses mobilised to assist AIDS orphans</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctor Christina Swart-Opperman, the founder of the Christina Swart-Opperman (CSO) AIDS Orphan Foundation Trust, organised a fund-raising breakfast, a teachers&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling on musicians for input to produce HIV/AIDS CD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN AIDS envoy visits Namibia</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/un-aids-envoy-visits-namibia-3/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Lewis, the UN secretary general&#8217;s special envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa, visited Namibia this week.During his visit, Lewis held discussions with different sectors of the society on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, including the plight of orphans and vulnerable children.Lewis also held a meeting with President Hifikepunye Pohamba, the First Lady Penexupifo Pohamba, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Cross to launch five-year HIV and AIDS plan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With HIV/Aids issues close to his hear</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seal sings at Sun Aids initiative</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun City is to be host to a major international arts festival during winter.Sun International this week announced POSITIVE &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS project in agricultural sector gets government approval</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kick AIDS Out tourney in Mariental</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students organise HIV/Aids summit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A unique HIV summit under the theme &#8220;Future Leaders Summit on HIV/Aids&#8221; took place this week at the Polytechnic&#8217;s campus in Windhoek. A student delegation from Elon University in USA joined students from the Polytech and the University of Namibia to organise a dynamic platform where young people discussed their options in the HIV awareness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS and family well-being</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Division for Social Policy and Development together with the Namibian Government is hosting a sub-regional workshop on HIV/AIDS and Family well-being from 28 to 30 January 2004 at the Safari Court Hotel.The aim is to contribute to the development of policies and programmes which strengthen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help for Aids orphans in the north</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christina Swart-Opperman Aids Orphan Foundation Trust this week received a donation of N$100 000 from the proceeds of a charity event organised by the stock broker, IJG. The first of the projects that will benefit is the St. Placidus Hostel at Oshipeto in northern Namibia. The hostel is run by the Roman Catholic Church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American and African students plan summit on &#8216;Fighting HIV/AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/american-and-african-students-plan-summit-on-fighting-hiv-aids-3/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[A unique student-organised summit to fight HIV/AIDS meant to serve as a springboard for proposing solutions to the pandemic is being run by United States of America (USA) and African students. Titled the &#8216;Future Leaders Summit on HIV/AIDS&#8217;, it is to be held at Polytechnic of Namibia from 22 to 24 January.The students in charge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop commemorates World Aids Day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employees of Namibia Dairies recently attended an informative workshop, hosted by Namibia Health Plan (NHP) on HIV/ AIDS in the workplace. Employees expressed their views and understanding of the illness by making drawings on paper. Some of these drawings were selected to be painted onto walls at the organisation&#8217;s head office. Linked to the employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cricket clinic for AIDS orphans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 60 children between the ages of seven to 17 years from the Christina Swart-Opperman AIDS Orphan Trust this week participated in a Cricket Coaching Clinic at the Wanderers Sports Club, which was organized by the visiting British Combined Services Cricket team.Christina Swart Opperman, founder of the trust, said the aim of the coaching clinic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joint partnership initiated to prevent HIV/AIDS in transport sector</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A donation of 500 copies of the NamibiAlive II CD&#8217;s was made to the Walvis Bay Corridor Group HIV/AIDS Help Desk at a ceremony held in the American Cultural Center auditorium on 03 February 2009.  The Walvis Bay Corridor Group will distribute these CD&#8217;s to truck drivers around the country as part of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank joins AIDS battle</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/bank-joins-aids-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standard Bank, Africa&#8217;s largest banking group, signed a pilot partnership agreement with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on 26 January.
Standard Bank will, in terms of the agreement, offer financial and management expertise to Global Fund grant recipient countries to ensure that funds are distributed inside the country in a timely manner. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Otjiruze day-care centre provides home for AIDS orphans</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Otjiruze Children&#8217;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&#8217;s school fees. 
			The children who are currently under the care of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education?s AIDS  efforts commended</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USAID Mission in Namibia has commended the Ministry of Education in its efforts in fighting HIV/AIDS.
Mission Director Gregory Gottlieb said during the Ministry of Education, World AIDS Day commemorative event that initiatives such as raising awareness on HIV/AIDS are critical to support those infected with and affected by this virus. It said such initiatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS Catastrophe looms over children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in a sprawling auditorium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with several hundred elementary and high school students they had discussed HIV/AIDS with an almost frantic intensity. The children had cross-examined him, laughed, jeered and even cried, says Stephen Lewis, Special Envoy of the U.N. Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Africa, in a statement.
?The questions and answers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/Aids ? access to affordable treatment for low-income employees</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest concerns to employers and employees alike is the fact that HIV/AIDS employees often do not have access to proper medical treatment or to affordable medical aid cover. It is estimated that medical aid funds provide cover to an estimated 35% of the formally employed workforce in the private sector only. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much needed aid to AIDS orphanages</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yvonne?s Aids Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children?s Centre received a third of the proceeds of the ?Fashion for Aids Orphans Extravaganza? organised by the Christina Swart-Opperman (CSO) Aids Orphan Foundation Trust in September.
An amount of N$27933 was donated and, according to the CSO Trust guidelines, consisted of. food, clothing and whatever else was needed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking after AIDS orphans</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/looking-after-aids-orphans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hampers were distributed to children affected and or infected by HIV/AIDS on the initiative of the Physically Active Youth organisation. The donations were distributed at four different centers in Windhoek to coincide with World Aids Day on 1 December.
The organisation had approached the Christina Swart-Opperman (CSO) Aids Orphan Foundation Trust, the Namibia Planned Parenthood Association [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa leads fight against HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s attention to NABCOA&#8217;s giant condom.
To mark this year&#8217;s AIDS Day, NABCOA organised various activities a week before 1 December to raise awareness. The condom was deemed applicable since this year&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS &#8211; the Namibian perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avis invests ¼ million in HIV/AIDS education</title>
		<link>http://www.hivnews.us/hiv/avis-invests-million-in-hivaids-education/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg ? The Avis group of companies? total investment in AIDS education in southern Africa has almost topped the quarter of a million rand mark.
According to the latest figures supplied by the United Nations Global Aids Report for 2003, over two-thirds of the world?s infected population lives in southern Africa. The report says that during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence against women hampers AIDS treatment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(PLUSNEWS) &#8211; On World AIDS Day the UN has highlighted the importance of treatment, as well as the need to address violence against women and girls, as an integral part of the global AIDS response.
Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr LEE Jong-wook, said it was important that countries set their own national targets to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Methealth launches HIV/AIDS outreach programme</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To assist in combating the Namibian HIV/AIDS pandemic, Methealth Namibia has implemented an extensive HIV/AIDS Outreach Program for Namibia Medical Care and Bankmed Namibia medical aid fund members, the company said in a statement.
The main aim of this programme was to assist members suffering from HIV/AIDS, in conjunction with their doctors, to receive the correct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Aids Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[10:00 March from Ausspannplatz to Ehafo Parking
March from Katutura to Freedom Square Parking
March with NABCOA and carnival figures
11:30 Puppet performance by Namibia Red Cross Society
Carnival performance by NABCOA
11:50 Arrival of dignitaries and members of the high table
12:00 National Anthem and African Union Anthem by the City of Windhoek Choir
12:05 Introduction by Master of Ceremony Emma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heading up to World Aids Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown to World Aids Day on Wednesday, 1 December, has started. World Aids Day is a project of the United Nations to ensure that HIV/AIDS remains on the radar of serious global issues.
The day is commemorated by governments and business communities worldwide.
The main aim of declaring a World Aids Day is twofold; to keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abstain and live an HIV/AIDS free life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Satires depicting the HIV/AIDS virus (left) and the human&#8217;s immune system entertained an audience last Friday at the launch of NABCOA&#8217;s Giant Condom in Windhoek. Among various plays that were performed during the occasion. A play on how the HIV-virus attack the human&#8217;s anti-body system and eventually destroying all the anti-bodies in the system. NABCOA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prevention is the key in fighting HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To mark World AIDS Day and as the theme of the commemoration a giant condom was erected in the centre of the city. The organisers of the World AIDS Day thought the condom would be appropriate to mark the day ? ? since our attention seems to have shifted to care and treatment?, say Richard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS concert begins over the weekend</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kalahari Sands Hotel and Casino will host a concert this Saturday, 27 November, to raise awareness of the impact of AIDS in Namibia.
Proceeds from the concerts will be donated to selected AIDS organisations.
?We plan to roll out the African red carpet for maestro performers and composers such as Johnny Clegg, PJ Powers and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Windhoek? World AIDS Day activities</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Windhoek?s organised activities to coincide with World AIDS Day on 1 December started with a build-up programme on Wednesday, 24 November. The activities are aimed at raising awareness of HIV/AIDS among employees, from the mayor down to the general workers.
For employees, senior executives and managers of the City were expected to devote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antibiotic reduces AIDS deaths in Zambia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLUSNEWS &#8211; 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&#8217;s Department for International Development to test co-trimoxazole, which was given to 540 HIV-positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All women face higher AIDS risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) this week shows that the number of women living with HIV has risen in every region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Asia, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In East Asia, there was a 56% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence against women fuels spread of HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
&#8220;The increasing spread of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS crisis has devastating proportions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Namibia is facing an HIV/AIDS crisis of devastating proportions. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is considered the single most important threat to sustainable human development and meeting the medium and longer-term goals of the Millennium Declaration and Vision 2030.
The above observation is based in the first Millennium Development Goals report that was released recently.
According to the report, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HIV/AIDS can be overcome &#8211; UN?s Millennium Development Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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) &#8211; have kicked off with a series of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS costs running up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(PlusNews) &#8211; Analysts at Apt Associates reckon South Africa&#8217;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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Namdeb policy on HIV/Aids &#8211; Project Eluwa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project Eluwa, introduced in April 2001 to address the impact of HIV/Aids on the Namdeb workforce, has achieved a decrease in the number of HIV infections.
This project is Namdeb&#8217;s HIV/Aids awareness programme aimed to develop and implement a broad HIV/Aids and life-threatening disease policy as well as a clear strategy to manage the impact of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the message on HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<title>Launching of CD about HIV/Aids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ombetja Yehinga Organisation and Media Logistics, in collaboration with the Take Control Task Force, recently announced the planned launch of the CD &#8216;Vital&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GTZ &#8211; the fight against HIV/AIDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worldwide, AIDS is one of the greatest obstacles to the peaceful development of the international community and there is still no sign of an end to the epidemic.
The war against HIV/AIDS can only be won with long-term cross-sectoral co-operation on preventive measures by those affected, and with the firm political resolve of those in power, [...]]]></description>
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