Dr Peng Wang a specialist in acupuncture – a drugs-free alternative medicine that has evolved into one of the most utilized forms of complementary integrative medicine – says a handful of Namibian medical insurance firms have finally agreed to sanction the therapy, thus enabling medical insurers to start accepting acupuncture claims. It took three years...
Former health minister Dr Richard Kamwi extolled the heroic role played by Professor Sir Richard Feachem for preventing Namibian babies being born with HIV that leads to Aids through the donor-funded Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT). At the time babies and adults infected with the HIV virus where condemned to death as more than...
OTAVI – Former minister of health Dr Richard Kamwi is a man of multiple tasks. After the health portfolio, Kamwi currently serves on the steering committee for the African task force on Covid-19; he serves as ambassador for Malaria Elimination 8 (E8), constituting four mainland countries, namely: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and eSwatini (formerly Swaziland)....