Despite a World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation that countries should make pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) available to HIV-negative people, the Namibian government has still not included it in its HIV prevention campaign.
The director for special programmes in the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Anne-Marie Nitschke, has confirmed that according to ARV guidelines, PrEP is only approved for couples where one partner is HIV positive and they want a child. This makes Namibia’s policy a direct contradiction of the WHO recommendations.
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