Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Alex in Phnom Penh
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In a comment published in the Phnom Penh Post, independent consultant Michael De Guzman, put forward a few reasons why interventions aiming at reducing HIV infection and transmission amongst Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) are failing in a developing country such as Cambodia where an ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Bar Street, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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IRIN reports how recent legislation against human trafficking introduced by the Cambodian government early this year, is shifting sex work from brothels to bars and karaokes leading to the development of new sexual behaviours increasing the spread of the HIV infection.
Like Thailand, Cambodia's fight against ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Bibi Rusell, former international fashion model and now world renowned Bengali designer started her own version of (PRODUCT)RED with HIV-infected women in Cambodia.
Russell joined the women of MDSF, an initiative started in 2006 by the UN Development Program that now employs 17 women living with HIV in a Phnom ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Ivory Coast Campaign
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A few days ago Elizabeth Pisani commented on her website on how the Cambodian government caved in to US pressure. US pro-abstinence ideologues were meddling with a recognised efficacious HIV prevention intervention in exchange for economic advantages.
This was an interesting post and it fitted with ...
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