Epidemiology

Number Of AIDS/HIV Cases Falling In Cambodia

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 4th, 2001

Cambodia is one of the few countries in the world where the HIV/AIDS epidemic appears to have slowed, a United Nations (U.N.)-sponsored workshop has concluded.

The workshop attributed the decline to a reduction in the number of persons newly infected each year, as well as to the increase in the number of people dying from AIDS each year, said a World Health Organization (WHO) statement.

The WHO co-sponsored the workshop, conducted in May 2001 in Phnom Penh by the Cambodian Health Ministry. The other co-sponsors were the U.N. Children's Fund and Family Health International.

The decline in the number of newly infected persons "is...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-06-04)

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