The Namibia Women's Health Network (NWHN) comprises 13 coordinating members, 12 of whom are young women living with HIV. The coordinating committee, based in Windhoek, engages with women in each of the twelve regions of the country to represent local health issues affecting women and girls. The central committee has monthly meetings with parliamentarians (MPs) at which they can also put the other regions' issues on the table to be discussed.
A committed group of MPs have benefited from the program in terms of having their eyes opened to the reality of what it means for an entire community, especially the women in that community, to be affected by HIV and AIDS, as well as other health issues. They are now ready to represent some of those issues in parliament, and in influencing policy and budgets.
