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Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, left, makes a speech in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 and Mam Bunheng right. (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS)Barre-Sinoussi and a team of around 20 scientists are now working on learning how the HIV virus is transmitted from mother to child.
By Nuch Sarita, VOA Khmer
Washington
Friday, 09 April 2010
“Professor Francoise Barre-Sinoussi has made efforts to find funding to help Cambodia, especially in the research of an effective HIV prevention program,”
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and co-discoverer of HIV, is in Phnom Penh this week to share her latest research findings on natural protection against AIDS.
Mean Chhi Vun, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STDs, told VOA Khmer that Barre-Sinoussi has been actively involved in promoting strong interactions between HIV and AIDS research and public health interventions in resource-limited countries.
“Professor Francoise Barre-Sinoussi has made efforts to find funding to help Cambodia, especially in the research of an effective HIV prevention program,” he said. “She is very well aware of the AIDS epidemic in Cambodia. She also knows how much our government has done with it, how civil society groups have taken part in the program, and how the AIDS epidemic evolves.”
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