Namibia's guiding strategic document for its multisectoral, decentralized national HIV response, periodically revised and reissued by the Namibian government to set the country's planning, programming, resourcing and implementation priorities against the epidemic. The current framework covers 2023/24 through 2027/28 and builds on an earlier framework that Namibian and UNAIDS assessments credit with remarkable progress toward the UNAIDS 95-95-95 testing and treatment targets, aiming this time for epidemic control by 2028 as a step toward ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Framed by Namibia's Vision 2030 and its National Development Plan, the strategy targets the geographic areas and population groups carrying the country's highest HIV burden and epidemic hotspots for accelerated and intensified intervention, alongside supporting instruments such as a voluntary medical male circumcision strategic plan and national gender and social protection policies.
Facts
Program StatusActive as of this 2010/11-2015/16 edition, succeeding the prior Medium Term Plan 1 Sponsoring BodyMinistry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS), Directorate of Special Programmes, Namibia 1 Target PopulationThe general population of Namibia, with specific interventions targeting most at risk populations (MARPS) 1 Health GoalPrevent new HIV infections and reduce HIV incidence by 50 percent by 2015/16, alongside scaled-up treatment, care and support 1 Geographic ScopeNationwide, Namibia, multisectoral (all government sectors) 1 Classification
Program KindDisease Surveillance Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
Sources
1. Republic of Namibia: National Strategic Framework for HIV and AIDS Response 2010/11-2015/16
Republic of Namibia, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Directorate: Special Programmesp.19, Introduction
The NSF is a successor to the Medium Term Plan (MTP-III that comes to an end in March 2010.
p.7, Acknowledgements
The Government of Namibia is equally grateful to the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) for the leadership it provided through the Directorate of Special Programmes (DSP).
p.14, Strategic Orientation (prevention priority)
The priority for the NSF is to prevent the occurrence of new HIV infections in the country. It aims to reduce HIV incidence rates by 50% by 2015/16.
p.15, Strategic Orientation (prevention section)
Specific interventions will be initiated targeting most at risk populations (MARPS).
p.19, Introduction (framework scope sentence)
a policy and leadership framework to guide all sectors in Namibia as to which HIV and AIDS programmes they need to implement, for which target populations, in order to achieve which results.
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