Cambodia reaches 95–95–95 targets Cambodia reaches 95–95–95 targets, showing the power of community leadership 18 June 2026
More than 20 years ago, when Seum Sophal learned he was living with HIV, he saw little reason for hope. Stigma was widespread and treatment options were limited.
“I was ready to die,” he recalled. “I was worried about what would happen to my young son after I was gone.”
Today, Mr Sophal, an officer with the Forum of Networks of People Living with HIV and Key Populations (FoNPAMs) at the Health Action Coordinating Committee (HACC), speaks with pride and emotion about Cambodia’s achievement of the 95–95–95 HIV treatment targets.
For him, the achievement is not only a national triumph, but also recognition of the years of work an...read more »(Unofficial translation) Statement by Senior Minister leng Mouly in his capacity as former Secretary-General of the Khmer People's National Liberation Front (KPNLF) and former Member of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia (SNC) Regarding Former Khmer Refugee Camps
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Teenager controls HIV infection without drugs for more than 12 years (CNN)A French teenager infected at birth with HIV has shown the ability to control levels of the infection in her body -- without being on antiretroviral treatment.
The finding provides new hope that a "functional" cure for HIV -- where the virus is brought down to low levels but not eradicated in the body -- may one day be possible. The 18-year-old female, whose mother was HIV positive, was given antiretroviral treatment soon after birth but stopped at age six and has since maintained undetectable levels of the virus in her blood -- known as remission -- for 12 years. "This is the first [time] long-term remission has been shown in children, or adolescents," said Asier Saez Cirion from the Institut Pasteur in France, who presented the findings at the 8th IAS conference...read more »Could a new jab PREVENT HIV? Vaccine 'completely protects against the virus and could have an enormous impact,' say experts
Monkeys were given the vaccine and then exposed to six doses of simian immunodeficiency virus, a close cousin to HIV which infects primates
Vaccine provided complete protection against infection in half of them
Positive results spurred pharmaceutical company to begin tests in humans
Vaccine has capacity to be an 'enormous public health impact', experts say
By Madlen Davies for MailOnline
Published: 09:45 GMT, 3 July 2015 | Updated: 14:09 GMT, 3 July 2015
An experimental vaccine completely prevented HIV infection in half of monkeys given the jab, a new study found. The monkeys were given the vaccine and then exposed to high doses of an aggressive virus that is the equivalent of HIV in humans. The result...read more »New hope for HIV patients: Pioneering antibody treatment could pave the way for vaccine to prevent infection
New antibody blocks protein receptor needed to infect human cells
Patients injected saw 300-fold reduction in amount of HIV in their blood
Scientists believe breakthrough could result in new vaccines against virus
By Lizzie Parry for MailOnline
Published: 08:35 GMT, 9 April 2015 | Updated: 10:05 GMT, 9 April 2015
A new HIV treatment pioneered using an antibody to attack the virus could lead to a new vaccine to prevent the infection. The first results to emerge from patient trials reveal the experimental therapy can dramatically reduce the level of virus in a patient's blood - their viral load. The scientists behind the discovery believe their findings offer new strategies for fighting or even preventing HIV infection. The antibody was ...read more »In Condom Market, a Growing Private Sector When Phnom Penh was flooded with free condoms during the Water Festival last week—a public health push to ensure revelers who came for days of debauchery did so safely—the city’s condom vendors weren’t happy about it.
“During the Water Festival, my company got almost no orders from guesthouses because most of the customers who came to Phnom Penh got free condoms from the NGOs,” said Kem Vichet, director of PPES Group, the local distributor of Yoi condoms.
But the Water Festival is a once-a-year event, and other private companies in the condom sector say the government bodies and health NGOs who distributed condoms for free last week have also been helping the for-profit condom market take off.
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Situation and direction in HIV response 2015 The below is the slide presentation title "Situation and direction in HIV response 2015":
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...read more »The HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCCT) in Cambodia
By 2014 Cambodian people could access to 253 VCCT sites at the health centers, referral hospitals and national hospital throughout the country (23 provinces and Phnom Penh municipality) with high quality assurance.
...read more »The Target Group as Drug User in Cambodia
By 2013 there is about 4,335 DU who have to receive regular HIV and AIDS prevention education and STD care and treatment.
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