News Date: 7th January 2012
Business Ghana
Cambodia estimated that about 2,608 people were killed by HIV/AIDS in 2011, a decrease of 11 percent from 2,943 people in a year earlier, Dr. Teng Kunthy, secretary general of National Aids Authority (NAA), said Thursday.
He said among the 2,608 deaths last year, some 2,484 were over 15 years old and 124 were children, whilst in 2010, among the 2, 943 deaths, 2,783 were over 15 years old and 160 were children.
He continued to say that the last year's new infection rate was also declined by 12 percent to 1,517 people including 191 children from 1,726 people including 256 children in a year earlier.
"We see a good result in our efforts to fight against HIV/AIDS; however, we still not satisfy with it and hope to see further decline in years to come," he told Xinhua.
Currently, an estimated 75,000 Cambodian people in 60,000 households are living with HIV/AIDS, according to a 2011's survey on the Socioeconomic Impact of HIV in Cambodia conducted by the United Nations Development Program. About 96.7 percent of them have received antiretroviral therapy.
The impoverished Southeast Asian nation needs about 58 million U.S. dollars a year to fight against HIV/AIDS, said Dr. Kunthy. More than 90 percent of the fund comes from external donors.
It expects the new drug to expand treatment opportunities for leukaemia patients in the global market beyond South Korea and Asia, thereby playing a central role in disease treatment.
Source: GNA
Business Ghana
Cambodia estimated that about 2,608 people were killed by HIV/AIDS in 2011, a decrease of 11 percent from 2,943 people in a year earlier, Dr. Teng Kunthy, secretary general of National Aids Authority (NAA), said Thursday.
He said among the 2,608 deaths last year, some 2,484 were over 15 years old and 124 were children, whilst in 2010, among the 2, 943 deaths, 2,783 were over 15 years old and 160 were children.
He continued to say that the last year's new infection rate was also declined by 12 percent to 1,517 people including 191 children from 1,726 people including 256 children in a year earlier.
"We see a good result in our efforts to fight against HIV/AIDS; however, we still not satisfy with it and hope to see further decline in years to come," he told Xinhua.
Currently, an estimated 75,000 Cambodian people in 60,000 households are living with HIV/AIDS, according to a 2011's survey on the Socioeconomic Impact of HIV in Cambodia conducted by the United Nations Development Program. About 96.7 percent of them have received antiretroviral therapy.
The impoverished Southeast Asian nation needs about 58 million U.S. dollars a year to fight against HIV/AIDS, said Dr. Kunthy. More than 90 percent of the fund comes from external donors.
It expects the new drug to expand treatment opportunities for leukaemia patients in the global market beyond South Korea and Asia, thereby playing a central role in disease treatment.
Source: GNA
1 comment:
It is heart breaking to see so many people had been killed and will be killed, among those are children, house wives, husbands that many lives could have been saved by the government.
In fact,in 1980-89 Cambodia had no HIV or AIDS cases to worry about.The world at that time had already been alarmed about this vicious and infectious disease,which could cause severe human suffering and cripple the nation health and nation economic aspect.
I wasn't alone to concerned about the impact of HIV,AIDS and many others issues as Cambodia was opening her door to the new world. Why did I and many others concerned,simply because we knew that those CPP leaders were naive,they fail to for-see the up coming of social and political transformation that Cambodia would face,just as much as we are worring about the CPP selling Cambodian assets such as farmlands,mineral resources and businesses to Hanoi and especially the immigration issue.
It is a shamed that,the blind CPP had done nothing to prevent people from this crises. This case here is a direct indicating of blind Hun's leader ship.
In 2010 there were 1700 people were killed on the Cambodian roads. This figures here if you compare the numbers of cars and roads,you can tell that Cambodia is the world number one in traffic accident.You could also can tell that in real life you could save those casualty by 90%,because you could see clearly that there are so many things in traffic rules or regulations that could have have been done to safe guard people lives.That is why we are going to see more casualties in many others aspect of Hun's politics.
How many more Khmer people have to suffer in poverty,to slave abroad maltreated or be killed at the border each year?
The answer is we need a new democratic government.The government that we are allowed to criticise if they neglect or misbehaved. The government that run by people who has the heart and mind that care for individual person in the country and the sovereignty of the nation.
True Khmer
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