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 – Saharan Africa remains the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 – 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 [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]