Namibia
Namibia: Setting minimum standards for residential child care
Namibia: Setting minimum standards for residential child care - WINDHOEK, Namibia, 12 Aug 2009 – Treza Cooper has been living at the Namibia Children's Home for three years. She's a bright and dedicated student and is involved in many activities at her school. When she was asked to become the Child Representative to a group developing Minimum Standards of Residential Child Care Facilities (RCCF), she accepted the challenge. [UNICEF News]
Namibia: Setting minimum standards for residential child care
Namibia: Setting minimum standards for residential child care - WINDHOEK, Namibia, 12 Aug 2009 – Treza Cooper has been living at the Namibia Children's Home for three years. She's a bright and dedicated student and is involved in many activities at her school. When she was asked to become the Child Representative to a group developing Minimum Standards of Residential Child Care Facilities (RCCF), she accepted the challenge. [UNICEF News]
Namibia: Pregnancy, HIV Add to Flu Risk
Namibia: Pregnancy, HIV Add to Flu Risk - Research published last week has shown that pregnant women and HIV-infected people are more prone to contracting the H1N1 flu virus, commonly known as 'swine flu'. [All Africa.com]
Efforts Underway In Namibia To Treat Pediatric HIV
Efforts Underway In Namibia To Treat Pediatric HIV - Inter Press Service examines how efforts underway in Namibia have helped to decrease the number of infants born with HIV while also increasing the number of HIV-positive infants on life-saving antiretrovirals (ARVs). [Kaiser-HIV/Aids]
Namibia: Plan Slashes Mother-Child HIV Infections
Namibia: Plan Slashes Mother-Child HIV Infections - While paediatric HIV remains a growing concern throughout Southern Africa, Namibian doctors have managed to put high numbers of babies on the life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment with the help of an early infant diagnosis (EID) programme based on dry blood sampling. [All Africa.com]
Namibia Makes Strides in Paediatric HIV (AEGiS)
Namibia Makes Strides in Paediatric HIV (AEGiS) -
Namibia Makes Strides in Paediatric HIV
Inter Press Service - July 28, 2009 Servaas van den Bosch
http://www.aegis.org/news/ips/2009/IP090711.html
Namibia: Global Financial Crisis Threatens Aids Funding
Namibia: Global Financial Crisis Threatens Aids Funding - THE global economic crisis threatens HIV prevention and treatment gains made by 22 poor countries over the last few years, according to a new UNAIDS and World Bank report. [All Africa.com]
Namibia: Illegal Aids Testing Court Case Ends in Settlement
Namibia: Illegal Aids Testing Court Case Ends in Settlement - WHAT was billed as a landmark case in the fight against HIV-AIDS discrimination, yesterday ended in an out-of-court settlement between 22 current and past employees of the Oshakati Country Lodge, their former employer and the medical doctor they said tested them for the virus without their consent. [All Africa.com]
