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Facing cuts, gov’t pressured to take lead in fight against AIDS
Two of the major donors who have supported Cambodia’s highly successful fight against HIV/AIDS are set to make significant cuts to their funding, putting pressure on the government to increase its own spending, officials and experts said. Both the Global Fund, which has contributed more than ...
Paula Brito
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/facing-cuts-govt-pressured-to-take-lead-in-fight-against-aids-72788/
In condom market, a growing private sector
When Phnom Penh was flooded with free condoms during the Water Festival last week—a public health push to ensure revelers who came for days of debauchery did so safely—the city’s condom vendors weren’t happy about it. The global health organization Population Services International (PSI), whose ...
George Styllis and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/in-condom-market-a-growing-private-sector-72352/
Cambodian transgender activist Sou Sotheavy wins 2014 David Kato Vision & Voice Award
The David Kato Vision & Voice Award has announced that the 2014 award will go to Cambodian transgender activist Sou Sotheavy. Now 75 years old, she has spent the last two decades working to establish a national network of organizations to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, ...
LGBT Weekly News Staff
http://lgbtweekly.com/2014/02/12/cambodian-transgender-activist-sou-sotheavy-wins-2014-david-kato-vision-voice-award/
Cambodia plans to distribute 100,000 condoms on Valentine Day
Cambodia plans to distribute 100,000 condoms on Valentine Day in cooperation with partners, health ministry of Cambodia on Monday announced that it planned to distribute 100,000 condoms on Feb 14, Valentine day. ...
The Southeast Asia Weekly News Staff
http://www.thesoutheastasiaweekly.com/cambodia-plans-to-distribute-100000-condoms-on-valentine-day/
Study charts AIDS progress
Cambodia’s decline in HIV/AIDS mortalities has made it a regional anomaly, according to a new study published today by a global health research centre at the University of Washington. While HIV/AIDS remains a leading cause of disease burden in Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and mortality ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-charts-aids-progress
Cambodia to stop HIV by 2020
During a presentation at the 2013 International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Cambodia showed its new initiative called “Cambodia 3.0” which aims to eliminate new infections of HIV by 2020. Cambodia had one of the fastest growing HIV ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=N2U3NjkyZDJiYTM