Epidemiology

Official: Over half a million Cambodians to be AIDS victims by 2010

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 18th, 2002

More than half a million Cambodians will suffer or die with AIDS by 2010 in what a senior health official has described as the country's new "killing field."

Tia Phalla, secretary-general of Cambodia's National AIDS Authority, said every Cambodian, from villagers to the prime minister, had to help fight the disease.

Diseases related to AIDS, first discovered in Cambodia in 1991, have killed about 90,000 people in this country of 12.5 million. Another 160,000 people are currently believed to be infected.

"This [AIDS] is already a new killing field, a human-made disaster which is extremely difficult to tackle because the enemy is...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-11-18)

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