Education and Prevention

Anti-AIDS Program To Be Expanded Throughout Cambodia

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 8th, 1999

A pilot anti-AIDS program appears to have reduced the spread of HIV in Cambodia's thriving sex industry and will soon be expanded throughout the country, health officials said.

With the help of local law enforcement authorities, the Health Ministry's HIV/AIDS Control Center in October 1998 began a program dubbed "100 percent Condom Use" in the seaside town of Sihanoukville, 185 kilometers (115 miles) southwest of Phnom Penh.

Sex workers were instructed by health workers to require all their customers to wear condoms. If men refused to comply, sex workers were encouraged to report them to police.

Sok Bunny, a health official...

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