After a May 2011 outbreak of Rift Valley fever among livestock northeast of Etosha National Park, Namibia, wild ruminants in the park were tested for the virus. Antibodies were detected in springbok, wildebeest, and black-faced impala, and viral RNA was detected in springbok. Seroprevalence was high, and immune response was long lasting.

Archinamaqua gen. n. lyleae sp. n. (Pimeliinae Latreille, 1802, Tentyriini Eschscholtz, 1831) is described from the sand dunes of Namaqualand in northwestern South Africa. It is related to the genera Broomium Koch, 1950 and Archinamibia Koch, 1952. All these taxa are wingless and highly adapted nocturnal sand dwellers in dry habitats of the same area in northwestern South Africa and southern Na...

The gendered historical investigation of migrant labour in Namibia (and southern Africa more broadly) has rightly considered the ways which women left behind sending areas were obliged to...

BACKGROUND In response to concerns about the emergence of HIV drug resistance (HIVDR), the World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a comprehensive set of early warning indicators (EWIs) to monitor HIV drug resistance and good programme practice at antiretroviral therapy (ART) sites. METHODS In 2012, Namibia utilized the updated WHO EWI guidance and abstracted data from adult and pediatr...

The problems women in peri-urban Namibia are faced with are multi-dimensional. Like women in other communities they face the pressure of having a number of responsibilities, namely working, being a wife and mother, taking care of their families and perhaps caring for aging parents. Sometimes the pressure can be too overwhelming to manage. As a result, many women become depressed. Studies on dep...

Many students at the University of Namibia have frequently complained about ineffective assessment practices used at the institution. On many occasions, these complaints have not been substantiated with evidence of any kind. The purpose of this study was to obtain some empirical evidence that would ascertain undergraduate students' perceptions of the University of Namibia's grading and assessme...

Two new species and two new genera (Pachyphasma, Striatophasma) of Mantophasmatodea are described from Namibia. Pachyphasma brandbergense is endemic to the Brandberg massif; Striatophasma occupies an extensive area south of the region inhabited by Mantophasma. Phylogenetic analyses (see Predel et al. in press) suggest a sistergroup relationship of Striatophasma and the South African Austrophasm...

DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong M School of Chemistry, University of the Wi South Africa. E-mail: [email protected] DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong M Institute, School of Physics, University Johannesburg, South Africa Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers New Jersey 08854, USA † Current address: Renewable Energy and of Namibia, 13 Storch Street, Private bag Cite this: Na...

Abstract This paper examined the impact of fiscal deficit on inflation in Namibia. The employed Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) and Granger causality approach using quarterly data for period 2002 - 2017. Empirical results showed evidence a long run positive effect suggests that has direct study also found unidirectional running from to confirmed South Africa’s prices have key policy...

BACKGROUND There is little published research investigating sex work in Namibia, particularly in rural areas. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to determine the views of women engaged in sex work in the Oshakati area of Namibia concerning the main factors influencing their use, or non-use, of male condoms during transactional sexual exchanges. METHODS Qualitative interviews were used to be...