As new medications become available on the market, Namibia will source these medicines after being satisfied with their effectiveness.

In line with this, the Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula, has indicated that Namibia will be purchasing the new HIV drug known as Lenacapavir after the clinical team considers it effective for patients. 

More than 300 politicians, health experts, and celebrities have called for US pharmaceutical giant Gilead to allow generic versions of a promising new HIV drug to be produced for people in developing countries most affected by the deadly disease.
 
They say the antiretroviral drug lenacapavir could be a real game-changer' in the fight against HIV.
 
Dr. Shangula says that the old HIV drugs currently in use will still be available. 
 
"It does not mean five grammes of the old drugs will be discarded. Each one has a role to play, and Lenacapavir has also got a role to play. It does not mean that we will replace the other ones."
 
He says the new HIV drug is not a cure but an advanced drug for treatment.
 
"Let us not get excited about anything because everything will be determined by the continent of the patients and the effectiveness of the medicine. It is accessible because it is one thing to have the medicine elsewhere and other things, whether it is being marketed, do that, it is available to all the nations, and then we will also be able to buy it."