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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 ...
Luke Hunt
http://thediplomat.com/2014/12/hiv-tragedy-tops-200-in-cambodia/
Cambodian unlicensed doctor faces charges of causing mass HIV infections in village
Cambodian police on Sunday sent a village medical practitioner to court to face the charges of causing mass HIV infections after over 100 people in a remote village were infected with the virus, a local police officer said. “The unlicensed doctor confessed that he had ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141221/cambodian-unlicensed-doctor-faces-charges-causing-mass-hiv-i
Cambodian villagers want to kill medical practitioner who allegedly spread HIV with infected needles
Cambodian authorities have put into protective custody an unlicensed health worker who villagers are threatening to kill, believing he used contaminated needles that spread HIV to more than 100 people. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called for calm on Thursday in Roka, a remote village in western ...
