| NAMIBIA - Country Profile |
Updated: Feb 2005 |
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National Strategic Framework
Status
Completed for the period 1999-2004. National policies
- A national policy is being prepared.
- A number of line ministries have issued sector specific HIV/AIDS policies.
Ministry of Health and Social Services
Private Bag 13198
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 203 9111
Fax: +264 61 227 607 / +264 221 332
Website: www.grnnet.gov.na
National AIDS Coordination Programme (NACOP)
Contact person: Mr. Abner Xoagub - Manager
Tel: +264 61 203 2218 / +264 61 203 2198/9
Fax: +264 61 224 155
Email:
- Provides technical support within the Ministry of Health and to NGOs on development of HIV/AIDS responses. Also covers medical management of HIV; care and support system including home-based family care; education on risk reduction and safer sex and surveillance of HIV, AIDS and STDs.
HIV/AIDS Organisations:
- Africare
Contact person: Cassie Chipere - Project Co-ordinator
Windhoek, Namibia
Email:
- AIDS Law Unit
Contact person: Michaela Figueira
P.O. Box 604, Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 223 356
Fax: +264 61 234 953
Email:
Website: www.lac.org.na
· Free legal advice and litigation service for people living with AIDS; HIV policy development; education and training on HIV and human rights; development and dissemination of education and training materials on HIV and human rights.
- Catholic AIDS Action
Contact person: Lucy Steinitz - National Coordinator
P.O. Box 11525, Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 276 350
Fax: +264 61 276 364
Email:
Website: www.caa.org.na
- LILONGO EPARU
P.O. Box 1994
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 256 303
Fax: +264 61 255 371
Email:
· Network of people living with HIV/AIDS with branches across the country.
- Multimedia Campaign on Violence Against Women and Children
Contact person: Jan Kruger
Private Bag 1334, Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 222 246
Fax: +264 61 224 937
Email:
- Namibian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NNP+)
Contact person: Emma Tuahepa (Director)
P.O. Box 61592, Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 81 124 2794 / +264 61 261 122
Fax: +264 61 261 778
Email: /
· Self-help; advocacy; awareness raising; lobbying.
- Namibian Network of AIDS Organisations (NANASO)
Contact person: Zack Mkhari (Director)
P.O. Box 23281, Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 81 124 2794 / +264 61 261 122
Fax: +264 61 261 778
Email:
Website: www.sanaso.org.zw
· National network facilitating research, exchange of information, access to resources, policy influence and advocacy, capacity building and providing technical assistance to its members, thus enhancing their capacities to mitigate the spread of HIV.
- Positive Nation
Contact person: Josef Uzangi
Tel: +264 61 280 511
Fax: +264 61 249 145
Email:
· Fund-raising and income generation activities; information dissemination; self-help groups; skills building.
- Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, Chair
Contact person: Dr Mandlhate
154 Independence Avenue
Sanlam Building, 13th Floor
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 204 6216
Fax: +264 61 204 6207
Mobile: +264 811 240 314
Email: /
Website: www.undp.org
· Supports an expanded response and policy advice on preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS.
- UNAIDS Country Advisor
Contact person: Salvator Niyonzima
154 Independence Avenue
Sanlam Building, 13th Floor
Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 204 6216
Fax: +264 61 204 6207
Mobile: +264 811 2465 43
Email: /
Website: www.undp.org
· UNAIDS leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS.
- Women's Solidarity
P.O. Box 23941, Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 262 275
Fax: +264 61 262 275
Email:
Website: www.womensolidarity.com
- Health Communication Partnership/Johns Hopkins University
Contact person: Nahum Gorelick - Country Programme Representative
P.O. Box 5588, Auspannplatz, Windhoek, Namibia
Tel: +264 61 247 950
Fax: +264 61 247 953
Email: /
· Focuses on research and communication development; includes 26-part radio series called “The Suzie and Shafa Show” which aims to explore relationships between youth lifestyles and HIV/AIDS. Research into prevention of mother-to-child transmission and voluntary counselling and testing services in Namibia.
Communication and Research Strategies involve strategic planning, trust building, multi-sectoral partnerships, multi-channel approach, engaging men, mass media and branding of services, community mobilization, capacity building, audiences, contextual messages and gender issues. Primary audiences being the youth, people living with HIV/AIDS and Orphans and other Vulnerable Children.
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| Country Indicators |
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| Demographic data |
Year |
Estimate |
Source |
| Total population (thousands) |
2004 |
2,011 |
UN population division database |
| Female population aged 15-24 (thousands) |
2004 |
201 |
UN population division database |
| Population aged 15-49 (thousands) |
2004 |
931 |
UN population division database |
| Annual population growth rate (%) |
1992-2002 |
2.7 |
UN population division database |
| % of urban population |
2003 |
32.2 |
UN population division database |
| Average annual growth rate of urban population |
2000-2005 |
3.04 |
UN population division database |
| Crude birth rate (births per 1,000 pop.) |
2004 |
32 |
UN population division database |
| Crude death rate (deaths per 1,000 pop.) |
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19.4 |
UN population division database |
| Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) |
2000 |
300 |
WHO (WHR2004)/UNICEF |
| Life expectancy at birth (years) |
2002 |
49.3 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Total fertility rate |
2002 |
4.6 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) |
2000 |
56 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Under 5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) |
2000 |
85 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
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For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications
| Socio-economic data |
Year |
Estimate |
Source |
| Gross national income, ppp, per capita (Int.$) |
2002 |
6650 |
UN population division database |
| Gross domestic product, per capita % growth |
2001-2002 |
1.2 |
World Bank |
| Per capita total expenditure on health (Int.$) |
2001 |
342 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| General government expenditure on health as % of total expenditure on health |
2001 |
67.8 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Total adult illiteracy rate |
2000 |
18 |
UNESCO |
| Adult male illiteracy rate |
2000 |
17.2 |
UNESCO |
| Adult female illiteracy rate |
2000 |
18.8 |
UNESCO |
| Gross primary school enrolment ratio, male |
2000/2001 |
112 |
UNESCO |
| Gross primary school enrolment ratio, female |
1997 |
113 |
UNESCO |
| Gross secondary school enrolment ratio, male |
1997 |
58 |
UNESCO |
| Gross secondary school enrolment ratio, female |
1997 |
65 |
UNESCO |
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For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications
Source: WHO/UNAIDS epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2004 Update.
Email:
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| Epidemiological Fact Sheet |
| Estimated number of adults and children living with HIV/AIDS, end of 2003 |
| These estimates include all people with HIV infection, whether or not they have developed symptoms of AIDS, alive at the end of 2003: |
| Adults and children |
210,000 |
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| Adults (15-49) |
200,000 |
Adult rate(%) 21.3 |
| Women (15-49) |
110,000 |
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| Children (0-15) |
15,000 |
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| Estimated number of deaths due to AIDS |
| Estimated number of adults and children who died of AIDS during 2003: |
| Deaths in 2003 |
16,000 |
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| Estimated number of orphans |
| Estimated number of children who have lost their mother or father or both parents to AIDS and who were alive and under age 17 at the end of 2003: |
| Current living orphans |
57,000 |
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Assessment of the epidemiological situation (2004)
National sentinel surveys have been conducted among antenatal clinic attendees in Namibia since 1992. Windhoek, the capital, and Walvis Bay are the major urban areas, however, data is only available from Walvis Bay since1998. HIV prevalence among antenatal clinic attendees tested increased rapidly from 4 percent in 1991-1992 to 30 percent in 2000. In 2002, 26 percent of antenatal women tested in the major urban centers were HIV positive. Outside of the major urban areas, HIV prevalence information among antenatal women was available from eight sites in 1991-1992 and increased to 16 by 2000. Median HIV prevalence among antenatal women increased from 3 percent in 1991-1992 to 17 percent in 1996 and increased again to 22 percent in 2002. From the 16 sentinel sites in 2002, HIV prevalence among antenatal women tested ranged from 9 percent in Opuwo to over 40 percent in Katima Mulilo.
HIV prevalence among antenatal women 15-24 tested in all the sites increased from less than 10 percent in 1994 to 18 percent in 2002.
There is no information available on HIV prevalence among sex workers.
In 1998, a median of 42 percent of STD clinic patients tested in Windhoek and Walvis Bay were HIV positive. Median prevalence from the 11 sites outside of the major urban areas was 34 percent of STD clinic patients tested in 1998. Prevalence ranged from 10 to 61 percent.
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