The APHN works to prevent disease, promote healthy lifestyles, create healthy environments, use data to inform decision-making, 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 access to health, equity, workforce development and health determinants, prevention of high burden diseases, emergency preparedness and response, disaster management and humanitarian relief supports and promote research and innovations.
What We Do
Tuberculosis
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.
HIV/AIDS
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).
COVID 19
With support from the Mastercard Foundation and Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), APHN is implementing the Saving Lives and Livelihoods (SLL) COVID Vaccination Center (CVC) project across multiple countries in North Africa. Working through local implementing partners, APHN is working to establish and manage COVID-19 vaccination centers and lead the training and recruitment of vaccinators across the designated geographical area from September 2022-August 2025. The project aims to establish or bolster 49 CVCs, establish or strengthen 170 mobile outreach teams, and ensure the administration of 39 million vaccine doses.
North Africa Saving Lives and Livelihood (NASLL)-COVID-19
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 activity will work 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. Project HOPE Namibia (PHN) has been one of the sub-implementing partners doing this task in North Africa (NASLL). The direct target beneficiaries of this project are 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. With the WHO declaration of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on May 5, 2023, Mastercard Foundation and Africa CDC are assessing the work and impact of the first phase of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative and looking to build on this through a second phase. In phase I, the SLL initiative was rooted in shared goals of enhancing Covid-19 vaccination in member states. As part of the Phase I initiative, PHN has taken the responsibility of addressing this task in 7 North Africa countries (Algeria, Mauritania, Sahrawi, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt).
ANAPA Project
(PHN-Malawi)
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.