Infant becomes latest person to die in Cambodia’s mass HIV infection

30 January 2015
Radio Free Asia
HIV/AIDS / Priority health concerns / Public health / Social development
Mam Bunheng / Ministry of Health / National AIDS Authority / Roka commune / Yem Chhrem

A seven-month-old girl is the latest victim of Cambodia’s mass HIV infections in a remote western commune where an unauthorized medical worker reused syringes. The infant was the first to die of 16 members from an extended family of 50 who contracted the deadly virus that causes AIDS from an unlicensed medical clinic in Roka commune in Sangke district of Battambang province. …

 Hum Chamroeun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/baby-dies-of-hiv-01302015171651.html

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