Cambodia: HIV and AIDS care for women and orphans
Fact: Cambodia has one of Asia’s highest HIV and AIDS rates, and women and children are particularly vulnerable.
Our aim: To provide women and orphans with the care and support they need to live positively with HIV and AIDS.
Thanks to you: So far your support has helped us get 533 children affected by HIV/AIDS back to school and provided 890 women and children with home-based care and medical treatment.
Over 3,000 women also attended community education programmes helping them learn more about HIV/AIDS and women's health.
Because of you, children like Vy Rath can look forward to a brighter future.
Your support in 2010 will provide Cambodia’s most vulnerable women and children with education, healthcare and livelihood support so that they can live a healthy and happy life. Please help us by supporting this vital project.
How far will your donation go in 2010?
- £7 could pay for a uniform and school materials for a child orphaned by AIDS
- £14 could pay for a volunteer literacy teacher for one month to teach orphans and vulnerable children
- £290 could pay for a year’s community education on HIV and AIDS, primary health care and child rights for orphans
- £6,000 could provide home-based care services for 240 women and 500 orphans living with HIV.
photo : ©Nicolas Axelrod/ActionAid
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Real lives
"ActionAid gave me and my family encouragement and strength."
Read Vy's story here.
"I was scared because I didn’t want my mother to leave me and my sister alone."
Read Ne's story here.
HIV and AIDS in Cambodia
- There are around 60,000 AIDS orphans in Cambodia
- With no-one to care for them, many end up on the streets
- Almost half of new HIV infections in Cambodia are among women who don’t know their husbands carry the virus
- Remote communities have no access to HIV and AIDS information
- Food shortages and poor nutrition speed the progression from HIV to AIDS.
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