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| Mao Samnag, 28, former prostitute and HIV positive, sits down on her shelter in a shanty town in Phnom Penh |
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| Cambodian woman Thach Samnang, who is HIV positive, sews a bag at her home at a slum village in Phnom Penh |
AFP
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia's widely hailed efforts in tackling HIV/AIDS are under threat with foreign donors likely to cut funding over the next two decades, a study said Tuesday.
"The success that Cambodia has had with its AIDS programme is at risk because of the possibility that external partners will withdraw financial support too quickly," said Richard Skolnik of the Results for Development Institute (R4D).
The Cambodian government will have to spend more of its own money in the fight against the virus, study coordinator Skolnik added.
New HIV infections have dropped from around 15,500 annually in the early 1990s to about 2,100 in 2009. And around 93 percent of 33,500 AIDS patients who are eligible are receiving anti-retroviral treatment.
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"The success that Cambodia has had with its AIDS programme is at risk because of the possibility that external partners will withdraw financial support too quickly," said Richard Skolnik of the Results for Development Institute (R4D).
The Cambodian government will have to spend more of its own money in the fight against the virus, study coordinator Skolnik added.
New HIV infections have dropped from around 15,500 annually in the early 1990s to about 2,100 in 2009. And around 93 percent of 33,500 AIDS patients who are eligible are receiving anti-retroviral treatment.
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