What We Do

The APHN works to prevent disease, promote healthy lifestyles, create healthy environments, use data to inform decision-making, promote research and innovations, and advocate for policy and system changes through ensuring health equity. We care deeply about our mission and work with our partners to achieve our vision for people to thrive in healthy and safe communities. Our mission rests largely on key health system gaps, such as expanding health access, workforce development, prevention of high burden diseases, emergency preparedness and response, disaster management, and humanitarian relief supports.

In 2011, PHN expanded its focus to include TB/HIV through a six-year award from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria (GFATM). In partnership with the MoHSS, the program aimed to increase the number of people screened and treated for TB, resulting in more than 4,000 people with TB successfully completing treatment through intense TB contact tracing, screening and link to care.

Project HOPE Namibia (PHN), a predecessor of APHN, was established as a welfare organization with the MOHSS in 2005, with an initial focus on the HIV/AIDS program and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) programming. PHN is the OVC lead partner for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)/United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Namibia. Since 2013, PHN has been providing treatment, care, and support to vulnerable groups living with or affected by HIV through the PEPFAR/USAID-funded Namibia HIV Adherence and Retention Project (NARP) and in 2018 was awarded a prime recipient role for the PEPFAR/USAID-funded Namibia Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, Safe (DREAMS) project to avert new HIV infections among Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW).

With support from the Mastercard Foundation and Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), APHN implemented the Saving Lives and Livelihoods (SLL) COVID Vaccination Center (CVC) project in North Africa. Working through local implementing partners, APHN aimed to establish and manage COVID-19 vaccination centers and lead the training and recruitment of vaccinators across the designated geographical area.

Through the North Africa Saving Lives and Livelihood (NASLL) Initiative, the COVID-19 immunization in Africa poses a unique system strengthening opportunity. Widespread immunization campaigns present an opportunity to invest in longer-term health systems improvements that will ensure the sustainability of each country’s COVID response as well as general immunization capacity.
In addition to addressing immediate vaccination and human resource needs, this project worked closely with host country governments, particularly with the existing national Immunization Programs at Ministries of Health (MoH) as well as regional and district health management teams, to ensure the sustainability of the activities. PHN has been one of the sub-implementing partners doing this task in North Africa (NASLL). The direct target beneficiaries of this project were host country Ministry of Health’s (MOHs), healthcare workers across a range of cadres in North Africa and other targeted groups. In addition, support will be provided on selected priority activities as part of health system strengthening activities.

Project HOPE Namibia (PHN) is uniquely positioned as the Prime to implement the USAID/Malawi Ana ndi Achinyamata Patsogolo (ANAPA) project to achieve the UNAIDS goals and prevent new HIV infections by ensuring equitable access to and use of health, HIV, and social services among CAFYW; in addition to strengthening existing social service systems in Malawi. The $60 million five-year project being implemented in nine target districts (Blantyre, Chikwawa, Mulanje, Mangochi, Machinga, Phalombe, Thyolo, Zomba, and Lilongwe) to prevent new HIV infections, achieve the 95-95-95 goals, and sustain epidemic control. The project will help Malawian children, adolescents (and their families), and their caregivers stay healthy, stable, safe and educated in the fight against HIV.
The HIV epidemic continues to drive a social crisis in Malawi that disproportionately impacts vulnerable children, adolescents and their families, and young women (CAFYW). PEPFAR investments have helped propel Malawi’s progress towards the UNAIDS 95-95-95 goals. Coupled with Government of Malawi (GOM) strategies and efforts, progress has been made across the continuum for most of the adult population but lags behind for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). One in three new HIV infections are among AGYW aged 15-24, and viral load suppression (VLS) rates remain low among children and adolescents compared to adults.