PHNOM PENH, Nov 22 (Bernama) -- Cambodian Red Cross President Bun Rany has called for an end to discrimination against workers living with HIV/AIDS during her Wednesday visit to a garment factory in Phnom Penh, China's Xinhua news agency said quoting local newspaper reports Thursday.
The president, also the wife of Prime Minister Hun Sen, asked bosses not to reduce the salary of infected workers should they miss work for treatment and stressed to the Cambodian public that HIV can't be passed through social contact, reported Cambodian- language newspaper the Koh Santepheap.
Bun Rany said that her comments signify the start of her organisation's AIDS and the Private Sector initiative, which has been developed to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS at factories as most of the nation's estimated 300,000 garment workers are female and vulnerable to HIV infection.
Workers should avoid infection by always remaining faithful to one partner, she said, adding "we may forget AIDS, but AIDS never forgets us."
Factory management should be tolerant of the issue and administer medication to infected workers, Rany added.
The HIV/AIDS infection rate in Cambodia decreased from 3.3 percent in 1997 to 0.9 percent in 2006 due to effective cooperation between the government, local authorities, relevant institutions, and NGOs, according to official figures.
The president, also the wife of Prime Minister Hun Sen, asked bosses not to reduce the salary of infected workers should they miss work for treatment and stressed to the Cambodian public that HIV can't be passed through social contact, reported Cambodian- language newspaper the Koh Santepheap.
Bun Rany said that her comments signify the start of her organisation's AIDS and the Private Sector initiative, which has been developed to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS at factories as most of the nation's estimated 300,000 garment workers are female and vulnerable to HIV infection.
Workers should avoid infection by always remaining faithful to one partner, she said, adding "we may forget AIDS, but AIDS never forgets us."
Factory management should be tolerant of the issue and administer medication to infected workers, Rany added.
The HIV/AIDS infection rate in Cambodia decreased from 3.3 percent in 1997 to 0.9 percent in 2006 due to effective cooperation between the government, local authorities, relevant institutions, and NGOs, according to official figures.
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Thursday, November 22, 2007
Appealing to all Khmer compatriots
Translation: All Cambodian Compatriots,
Now, national and international people are paying attention to the progressive former Khmer Rouge leaders trial, but the hottest issue is likely forgotten.
The defrocking of Monk Tim Sakhorn and sent him to be tried in Vietnam is the current national hottest issue of Cambodia that it is more important than the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders because the trial expects to build a rule of laws, eliminate the culture of impunity, and remedy the Cambodian PTSDs.
But in case of Tim Sakhorn has created the doubt that current Cambodian people based on what law and regulation to ensure that they have Khmer citizenship especially according to the national constitution. As they didn't explain clearly the Khmer citizenship of Tim Sakhorn, and neglecting him until he is being tried by that Vietnamese court freely, intensifies the doubt that Cambodia has no their own status and identity especially the national law and citizenship.
The case of Khmer Kampuchea Krom is very important, government has to deal with this case only inside Cambodia, government should not neglect in case of Tim Sakhorn because this is the sign of losing Cambodian national sovereignty.
Please, rethink again the different between the Khmer Rouge trial and Khmer citizenship regulation, which one is more important than? Or the current progressive former Khmer Rouge leaders trial just to manipulate Khmer people not to pay attention their national citizenship law and identity?
KY
You are sick, 9:39. No one care about Ah KKF agent monks (Sakhorn). We are so glad that our government deported his ass back to Vietnam. Who the hell will want to pray with spy?
6:06 AM
Only one you no care, but Cambodian in general is concerning about their citizen status that can be peel off easily like Tim Sakhorn.
It really critical because government didn't have any responsibility or explanation at all about Tim Sakhorn's Khmer citizenship....and he has been tried by a court in foreign country easily...
This is a sign of danger and extinction of Cambodian nation...and the losing total independence of Cambodia as a nation that controlled by national constitution especially citizenship law.
KY
Wrong, 8:18, there is no complaint in Cambodia about deporting spies back to Vietnam. The Khmer people welcome this move by the government.
And there is no concern about Khmer extinction either, if anything, they are trying to cut down on excessive population growth right now.
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