June 18

• Namibia: Discrimination Against HIV Destroyed Her Business

  WHEN Nangula Sheetekela started her kindergarten business in 1991 things were going well. That was until she started helping HIV positive people. Read more »

June 6

• Namibia: Namibia Gets N$986 Million From Global Fund

  THE Global Fund has approved a N$986,8 million grant to Namibia for the second phase of the country's HIV programmes. Read more »

June 1

• Namibia: Truck Drivers Continue to Be Vulnerable to HIV

  AFTER driving hundreds of kilometers, Jona Kamati finally pulls his cargo truck over at the Angolan border by one of the truck-ports at Oshandakalala where he would finally retire... Read more »

May 17

• Namibia: Resisting Violence Increases Violence [opinion]

  FOR too long my fellow countrymen and women have become content with fighting rape, murder, AIDS, drugs, violence, poverty, corruption; the list is endless. Read more »

April 27

• Namibia: False Confidence, Rapid Births Among Causes of Maternal Mortality [analysis]

  DOMESTIC and wild animals routinely give birth - sometimes in the middle of the night - with no one in attendance and with no risks from the process to the mother animal or... Read more »

April 9

• Namibia: Standing Tall Despite HIV

  "I AM strong. Nobody and nothing can put me down - not even discrimination, not even my HIV status, not those who point fingers, and not even the fact that I'm not educated. I'm... Read more »

March 15

• Namibia: Being a Sexual Minority in the Time of HIV-Aids

  WITH an 18,8% estimated HIV-AIDS prevalence rate for the country, The Weekender asked few individuals from the gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans-gender and intersex (LGBTI) communities... Read more »

March 14

• Namibia: HIV Prevalence Rate Drops in Khomas

  THE HIV prevalence rate in the Khomas Region has dropped from 16,3% in 2010 to 12% last year, an achievement that the health sector, together with the leadership of the Khomas... Read more »

February 5

• Namibia: Hardap Region Reduces Malnutrition Deaths

  THE number of children under the age of five who died of hunger has dropped significantly in the Hardap Region. Read more »

December 18, 2012

• Namibia: HIV Remains 'Development Challenge'

  HIV-AIDS remains a great development challenge for Namibia, says Health Minister Richard Kamwi. Read more »

December 11, 2012

• Namibia: Education Particularly Hard Hit By HIV-Aids

  THE challenges faced by the Namibian education system as a result of HIV-AIDS were highlighted at the commemoration of World AIDS Day by the Ministry of Education on Friday. Read more »

December 6, 2012

• Namibia: Windhoek Aims for Zero HIV Infections

  THE City of Windhoek commemorated World AIDS Day yesterday in the Samora Machel Constituency where an HIV-positive woman gave testimony about living with the virus. Read more »

November 29, 2012

• Namibia: World Aids Day Music Festival

  Namibia Network of AIDS Service Organisations (Nanaso) in partnership with Zero Degrees will stage the 2012 World AIDS Day Music Festival, with the aim of bringing together over 10... Read more »

November 22, 2012

• Namibia: New HIV Infections Drop in Namibia

  THE rate of new HIV infections has dropped by 68% in Namibia over the last 11 years, according to a new Joint United Nations Programme on HIV-AIDS (UNAIDS) report. Read more »

November 16, 2012

• Namibia: Aids Funding to Be Slashed

  ALL New Start HIV counselling and testing centres in Namibia will be closed by next year, says Sarah Fuller, the HIV-AIDS counselling and testing programme manager in the Ministry... Read more »

October 16, 2012

• Namibia: About 107 000 On Antiretrovirals

  ABOUT 107 000 people are currently on antiretroviral therapy (ART) provided free of charge by the government, said Dr Norbert Forster, the deputy permanent secretary in the... Read more »

October 9, 2012

• Namibia: UN Issues Damning Report On Poverty

  ALTHOUGH Namibia's chances to become a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council look dim, it still has a "window of opportunity" to comply with some of the recommendations... Read more »

October 3, 2012

• Namibia: HIV-TB Co-Infection Rate Worries Kamwi

  THE Minister of Health, Richard Kamwi, is concerned about the high rate of HIV-AIDS and TB (tuberculosis) infections in the country. Kamwi said the HIV-TB co-infection rate is one... Read more »

September 28, 2012

• Namibia: Govt Appeals Sterilisation Judgement

  GOVERNMENT has lodged an appeal against the High Court ruling in which it was held liable to compensate three HIV-positive women who claimed to have been sterilised in State... Read more »

September 17, 2012

• Namibia: No AGM for Sex Workers

  THE executive director of the Rights Not Rescue (RNR) sex workers' organisation, Nicodemus 'Mama Africa' Aochumub, says the planned annual general meeting of his organisation with... Read more »

September 7, 2012

• Namibia: Swapo Youth Want Condoms At Schools

  THE Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) is urging Government to consider distributing condoms at schools, as well as to formally recognised traditional healers through the... Read more »

August 23, 2012

• Namibia: Condom Day Commemorated

  CONDOM use among Namibian men and women remains poor, says Albert Tjaronda, the manager: condom use and promotion in the directorate of special programmes in the Ministry of Health... Read more »

August 1, 2012

• Namibia: Sexual Minorities Welcome HIV Survey

  HUMAN rights activists and defenders have welcomed the Ministry of Health's comprehensive survey to get to the bottom of how some sexual groups are affected by the HIV-AIDS... Read more »

July 31, 2012

• Namibia: Goat Project in Karas Region a Huge Success

  The People In Need (PIN) organisation's goat project in the Karas Region is progressing well, following the recent handing-over of 40 goats from previous beneficiaries to new... Read more »

• Namibia: Govt Held Liable for Sterilisations

  THE three women who sued Government for a total of N$3,6 million after being sterilised in State-run hospitals won a significant part of their case in the High Court in Windhoek... Read more »