Namibia: Government Expands HIV Treatment Programme

Last Friday the donor community heaped praise on the Ministry of Health and Social Services for expanding to several hospitals its anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to HIV/AIDS patients and the prevention of mother to child transmission programme (PMTCT). As a result of the launch, the rollout programme of anti-retroviral therapy will cover six additional state hospitals at Engela, Outapi, Grootfontein, Otjiwarongo, Gobabis and Omaruru, one hospital managed by Lutheran Medical Services at Onandjokwe in the Oshikoto Region and three health facilities run by the Catholic Health Services at Oshikuku in the Omusati Region, Andara and at Nyangana in the Kavango Region.