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Battambang provincial governor Sok Lou brought humanitarian aid packages to some 100 households living with HIV in the northeastern commune of Roka on December 23.
Donors have provided much-needed humanitarian aid to a community of HIV-positive families in Battambang province’s Roka commune, which has been hit by funding shortages stemming from civil society organisations (CSOs) having their funding cut during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Share HIV victims suffer declining support Sun, 13 December 2020 Civil society organisations and people living with AIDS have called on the government and generous people to continue providing aid to those affected by the virus. The call came as the number of people who have died from AIDS, mostly related to the HIV outbreak in Battambang province’s Sangke district in 2014, reached 45 as of December this year. The HIV outbreak in Roka commune was spread by Yem Chrin, an unlicensed medic who has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Eng Samnang, director of the Roka Referral Hospital, told T...