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  • Title: Cambodian AIDS conference opens with plea.
    Journal: AIDS Wkly Plus; 1999 Apr 12; ():12. PubMed ID: 12322126.
    Abstract:
    HIV is widespread in Cambodia, with up to 4% of the country's adult population infected with HIV and 100 people newly infected each day. Overall, more than 180,000 of Cambodia's 11.4 million people carried HIV, of whom 150,000 have already died. Many pregnant women are infected. While research findings indicate that Cambodians use about 1 million condoms per month, more than half of the country's brothel-employed prostitutes continue to have unprotected sex. The sex industry and the married men who support it are driving Cambodia's HIV/AIDS epidemic, which will ultimately result in enormous costs in terms of health care and lost production and income. An urgent need exists to expand programs to promote 100% condom use in brothels. At Cambodia's first national AIDS conference, government leaders and UN officials called for urgent action to check the spread of the disease, and the country's health minister stressed that HIV/AIDS must be treated seriously since it affects the entire society and the country's future development. A 38-year old woman infected with HIV by her husband urged Cambodians to heed her warnings about HIV/AIDS ravaging Cambodia, and told how she was shunned by friends and relatives once they learned she was infected with HIV.
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