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Article: Aids Alert International-Cambodia's HIV rate ranks highest in Asia.
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- AIDS Alert
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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Aids Alert International-Cambodia's HIV rate ranks highest in Asia
Cambodia's decades of civil war have left a fertile ground for HIV, which has exploded among a populace that is characterized by wide spread illiteracy, poor education, high levels of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), a dismantled health care system, and severely disrupted social and familial structures.
An estimated 20,000 people have died of AIDS in Cambodia, and recent figures from the National AIDS Authority of Cambodia put the daily death toll from AIDS at 20, says Geoff Manthey, country programme advisor for UNAIDS Cambodia in Phnom Penh.
With an estimated 180,000 people infected ...