The number of children
who become HIV positive every year could be more than halved if pregnant women
living with HIV received comprehensive services including anti-retroviral drugs,
UNICEF said yesterday. But less than 10% of women who need these services are
getting them. Currently, more than 600,000 children are estimated to become
infected with HIV each year, over 90% of [...]

The Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) has reiterated its call for the scraping of
a section of the Namibian Immigration Control Act which discriminates against
foreigners living with HIV and Aids.Section 13 of the Immigration Control Act of
1993 states that any person who enters,has entered or is in Namibia shall be a
prohibited immigrant if ?such a person is [...]

The Ministry of Health and Social Services intends to become the leading
public provider of quality health and social welfare services in Afica according
to Kahijoro Kahuure peremanent secretary in the ministry at the official opening
of the Ministry?s Enlarged Ministerial Commitee Meeting held recently. At the
meeting that was attended by the Hon minister of health and social [...]

The visiting Germany minister of economic cooperation and development, Dirk
Niebel met National Planning Commission director general, Mr Peter Katjavivi
last week to discuss existing and future assistance from Germany to Namibia.In a
statement released after the meeting, the DG and the minister confirmed that
excellent bilateral relations exist between Namibia and the Federal Republic of
Germany, which is also [...]

The International University of Management (IUM) received a loan of N$20
million from the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) for the construction of a new
campus in Windhoek.According to Dr David Namwandi, founder chairman and
Vice-Chancellor of IUM, the premises from which the institution is currently
operating from, inhibits growth and also does not have facilities for
accommodation and extra [...]

Street children are often regarded as a menace. In order to fend for
themselves, some often resort to stealing or begging.The 2006 Demographic Health
Survey showed that there are 250 000 orphans and vulnerable (OVC) children in
the country, 155 000 of whom are orphans.According to the Ministry of Gender
Equality and Child Welfare, this number is on the [...]

There was more bad
news in economic forecasts this week when the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
said the country?s economic outlook was overshadowed by the global economic
slowdown and Namibia should beef up growth in its non-mineral sector to ease
poverty and unemployment.This came on the heels of an announcement by the Bank
of Namibia that it was cutting the [...]

Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brat Pitt may have
selected Namibia as the birth place for their son in 2006, but latest statistics
on infant, child and maternal mortality rates produced this week paint a bleak
picture on the safety of the children born in the south-western African
state.The country?s ministry of health and social services was this week
reported [...]

Dixon Norval, Head of
Strategic Marketing and Communications at FNB Namibia Holdings, will represent
the group a board member of the African Leadership Institute [ALI], according to
an announcement by Adv. Vekuii Rukoro, the group?s CEO, this week.He said Norval
would take up the directorship of ALI with immediate effect.?He (Norval) will
not only look after the interest of FNB [...]

(IRIN) – As the
Zambezi River?s waters continue to rush over the broken banks in northeastern
Namibia, swallowing villages, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies (IFRC) has announced that it will launch an initiative to
build the resilience of people affected each year by seasonal flooding.According
to IFRC, although the levels of the Zambezi and Kavango [...]