Public health
Priority health concerns
New era looms for Kantha Bopha
During the first six months of this year, the hospitals recorded $7.7 million in private donations from Switzerland, compared to $7.4 million during the first six months in 2016, according to Laurent. ...
Yesenia Amaro and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-era-looms-kantha-bopha
Health Ministry warns of bird flu
The Ministry of Health yesterday warned people to be aware of the new avian influenza strain H7N9, which has spread to poultry in China and neighbouring countries. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074793/health-ministry-warns-bird-flu/
Prime Minister vows to keep children’s hospitals running
Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the government to draw up a plan to fund the country’s popular Kantha Bopha children’s hospitals on Monday, four months after the long-serving director of the foundation that runs them resigned. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-vows-to-keep-childrens-hospitals-running-2-132837/
Cambodia takes the regional lead in HIV treatment effort
Cambodia has made significant progress in HIV treatment, taking the lead regionally by reaching 80 percent of those living with the virus and becoming one of only seven countries globally to reach target treatment goals, according to a U.N. report released on Thursday. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-takes-the-regional-lead-in-hiv-treatment-effort-132751/
Global Fund donates $98m despite graft investigation
Global Fund will provide $98 million to fight malaria, tuberculosis and AIDs from 2018 to 2020, an official said on Thursday, with the donor seemingly banking on improved oversight to prevent alleged government fraud and nepotism it described as recently as March. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/global-fund-donates-98m-despite-graft-investigation-132750/
French project to set up day care services for factory workers
France has pledged nearly $400,000 to set up maternal health and early childhood services, including child care centers, at a dozen garment factories across Cambodia, the French Embassy said on Wednesday. ...
Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/french-project-to-set-up-day-care-services-for-factory-workers-132702/
Winning the war on dengue
The ministry yesterday used National Dengue Campaign Day to announce that there were 1,133 reported dengue cases in the first 24 weeks of this year and just one fatality, compared with 2,447 dengue cases and five deaths in the same period last year. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39932/winning-the-war-on-dengue/
Software to help stop spread of TB
The Indian Embassy to Cambodia has given a $50,000 grant for a project to help stop the spread of tuberculosis in the kingdom. During a press conference at the National Centre for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT) on Friday, Operation ASHA programme director Dr Narith ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38802/software-to-help-stop-spread-of-tb/
New methods needed for malaria treatment: study
A study published in the Malaria Journal last week suggests that to combat malaria, the outmoded approach of mass anti-malarial drug administration may be effective, but only if local community leaders play a prominent role. ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-methods-needed-malaria-treatment-study
Unsafe sex with personal partners endangering sex workers
More than 86 percent of 3,151 sex workers surveyed across 18 provinces regularly use condoms with clients, according to research released yesterday by the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STDs. But only 27 percent consistently use condoms during sexual intercourse with their husbands, boyfriends ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unsafe-sex-personal-partners-endangering-sex-workers-130245/
Fraud at malaria centre: Global Fund report uncovers ‘systematic’ double billing, nepotism
A report by the Global Fund’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has confirmed evidence of corruption and nepotism at Cambodia’s National Malaria Centre (CNM), first revealed by The Post last year, calling the centre’s oversight “dysfunctional and unauditable”. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fraud-malaria-centre-global-fund-report-uncovers-systematic-double-billing-nepotism
Kingdom asked to up AIDS fund
Cambodia has been asked to more than double its yearly contribution toward the fight against HIV/AIDS to at least $3.2 million in each of the next three years, an official from the National AIDS Authority said yesterday. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-asked-aids-fund
PM backs war against malaria
Prime Minister Hun Sen called for renewed effort to wipe out malaria in Cambodia by 2025 in a message to mark World Malaria Day on Tuesday. There were 23,627 cases of malaria in the country last year, a decrease of 54 percent compared with 2015, which ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37826/pm-backs-war-against-malaria/
US cuts funding to UN women’s health fund
The US government has pulled any future funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a group focused on reproductive rights for women and girls, over claims it has practiced coercive abortions and involuntary sterilizations in China. ...
Mark Tilly
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37230/us-cuts-funding-to-un-women---s-health-fund/
Beat Richner quits as head of Kantha Bopha Hospitals
Doctor Beat Richner, the prominent Swiss-born doctor credited with resurrecting the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals – which have treated millions of patients free of charge since 1992 – stepped down from his more than two-decade role of managing the hospitals, citing a serious illness. ...
Niem Chheng and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/beat-richner-quits-head-kantha-bopha-hospitals
Trade in breast milk outlawed
The government yesterday announced a total ban on the collection and export of human breast milk, after it emerged poor women had been earning cash through the trade. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37002/trade-in-breast-milk-outlawed/
TB diagnoses lag: study
A lack of diagnostic equipment in Cambodia is causing cases of tuberculosis to be both over- and under-reported in children, a new study finds. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tb-diagnoses-lag-study
More than 60 children poisoned
Health officials have urged people to take care when buying food beyond its use-by date or suspected to be chemically contaminated after more than 60 students in Takeo province became ill from eating noodles. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35872/more-than-60-children-poisoned/
Kids’ supplement results mixed
The Cambodian government and UNICEF yesterday released results of a clinical trial on new locally produced food supplements to tackle the country’s persistently dismal malnutrition figures, with at least one of the two products proving effective. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kids-supplement-results-mixed
Bird flu outbreak halted
Health officials in Svay Rieng province, which was hit by an outbreak of bird flu (H5N1) early this month, said the virus has been stopped and there was no sign of a continuing outbreak. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35658/bird-flu-outbreak-halted/
First lady: improve child healthcare
Cambodia’s first lady appealed to civil servants and health workers to improve efforts to reduce maternal and child deaths in conjunction with the National Day on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health today. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35662/first-lady--improve-child-healthcare/
Newborn care still a concern
Although infant mortality rates have dropped dramatically over the past 15 years, a new report in the journal Healthcare has identified significant shortcomings in newborn care in Cambodia. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/newborn-care-still-concern
Mobile phones could be anti-HIV tool: study
Mobile phone technology could be an effective means to promote improved health practices among Cambodia’s female entertainment workers and help curb the spread of HIV, according to a new study conducted by the organisation KHANA and the Center for Global Health Research at Touro University ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mobile-phones-could-be-anti-hiv-tool-study
Wives bearing brunt of HIV
A toxic culture of masculinity in Cambodia is contributing to the spread of HIV from husbands to wives, according to a study in the American Journal of Men’s Health. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wives-bearing-brunt-hiv