Cambodia should strive to improve the living quality of its HIV/AIDS patients rather than just support them to live, the Khmer HIV/AIDS NGO Alliance (KHANA) said on Thursday.
The kingdom is now faced with new and different challenges in its anti-HIV/AIDS campaign, such as moving beyond meeting the basic needs of the patients, KHANA said in a press release issued along the inauguration of the two-day Stakeholder Conference on the HIV/AIDS Response in Cambodia.
Let's "think of living, not only surviving," added KHANA, organizer of the conference and major HIV/AIDS fighter in the kingdom since 1997.
Cambodia also needs to assure that the aid programs are well governed and accountable, and that the people of Cambodia have access to a range of opportunities to ensure their health and well- being, said the press release.
Meanwhile, a report issued by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) at the conference confirmed that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is no longer growing rapidly in Cambodia, which means that the kingdom has "turned the tide" in the period from 1991 to 2005.
The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate among the Cambodian adults has dropped to the current 1.9 percent from three percent in 1997 and the people living with HIV/AIDS also decreased from 179,000 in 1998 to the current 135,100, including 123,100 adults and 12,000 children, it said.
According to government statistics, HIV/AIDS has killed about 100,000 Cambodians so far.
Source: Xinhua
The kingdom is now faced with new and different challenges in its anti-HIV/AIDS campaign, such as moving beyond meeting the basic needs of the patients, KHANA said in a press release issued along the inauguration of the two-day Stakeholder Conference on the HIV/AIDS Response in Cambodia.
Let's "think of living, not only surviving," added KHANA, organizer of the conference and major HIV/AIDS fighter in the kingdom since 1997.
Cambodia also needs to assure that the aid programs are well governed and accountable, and that the people of Cambodia have access to a range of opportunities to ensure their health and well- being, said the press release.
Meanwhile, a report issued by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) at the conference confirmed that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is no longer growing rapidly in Cambodia, which means that the kingdom has "turned the tide" in the period from 1991 to 2005.
The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate among the Cambodian adults has dropped to the current 1.9 percent from three percent in 1997 and the people living with HIV/AIDS also decreased from 179,000 in 1998 to the current 135,100, including 123,100 adults and 12,000 children, it said.
According to government statistics, HIV/AIDS has killed about 100,000 Cambodians so far.
Source: Xinhua
7 comments:
Indeed, NGO should call for their
demand in the West because HIV/AIDS
is westerner's disease that is
spreading and harming our Asian
societies.
Again your are so ignorant about the world including the origin of AIDS. Where was the HIV/AIDS originated? It's not from the West like your comment above. Do your research again.
you are absolutely right 11:36AM .12:27am go and research yourself empty head...
Sure, Ah KWKS Youn's girl friend can tell him to do anything including where the AIDS was originated in the west. And Ah KWKS Youn believe it because he has a coocoo head. That's why this sucker defend Ah Sen Khvak sooo much because Ah KWKS is an accomplice to him and that one day he is going to finish giving Cambodia to Ah Youn communist. Ah KWKS listens to his girl because she has a special food for him. Poor coocoo head.
Alright, listen up tics and fleas:
You are not telling us that AIDS
originated in Cambodia, are you?
Actually, the origin is not that
important. What important was
the westerners caught AIDS first
in 1981, and they failed to contain
it in the west. Therefore the west
is accountable for allowing AIDS
to spread worldwide and killed
about 50 millions innocent people,
fair?
What a load of bollocks, 2:49PM! Aren't you supposed to do a proper research before opening your filthy mouth? I don't have to tell you how do your research properly, because you're too thick to understand the methodology.
Let me give you a clue. It is not the Westerners who caught AIDS first. Idiot!
Alright then who caught the first
AIDS and died from it? I bet you
it is westerners.
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