The intervention prevents transmission of HIV from an HIV-positive mother to her infant during pregnancy, labour, delivery, or breastfeeding.

The health ministry and the US government opened a voluntary male circumcision clinic in Windhoek with a capacity of performing 20 procedures per day.

Windhoek Mayor, Muesee Kazapua encouraged fellow male Namibians to visit health facilities for HIV testing and voluntary medical circumcision in order to reach the target of eradicating the disease by 2020.