HIV tragedy tops 200 in Cambodia
In a small village in Cambodia’s west, a tragic tale of international significance has caught the local authorities off-guard. An unlicensed doctor has been charged with causing an outbreak of HIV and murder after lax practices resulted in at least 201 people contracting the potentially fatal disease.
Children as young as four months and senior citizens in their 80s are among those diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus, since one patient who visited Yem Chroeum and tested positive in November began urging others who sought his medical help in Roka to be screened for HIV.
Police have alleged that Yem Chroeum routinely re-used dirty syringes while boasting of having great healing powers when attending the poor. He was often in demand for treating high temperatures, sometimes associated with dengue fever, influenza or typhoid. …
Luke Hunt
http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/hiv-tragedy-tops-200-in-cambodia/
