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Namibia Rolls Out AIDS Plan
April 19, 2004
By IRIN PlusNews
Namibia plans to reduce its current HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 22 percent by more than half over the next five years.
The ministry of health is hoping to achieve this national goal through the recently launched Third Medium Term Plan (MTP III), a multisectoral response to the epidemic.
"The objective of the MTP III is to reduce the incidence of HIV infection to below epidemic threshold. In epidemiological terms this implies less than one new infection for every existing person living with HIV/AIDS," Dr Norbert Forster, Under Secretary Health and Social Welfare Policy of the Namibian Ministry of Health, explained to PlusNews.
COPYRIGHT 2004 UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
For the Full Article, go to:
http://www.irinnews.org/AIDSreport.asp?ReportID=3279&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa&SelectCountry=NAMIBIA
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Jane Darby on 19 April 2004
Africa : Namibia
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