The Government of Cambodia has removed AIDS from the center of the capital city of Phnom Penh on the outskirts. They live in buildings of thin metal sheets and the lack of clean water, passes CNN.
The Government has started to evict people living with HIV and AIDS patients a month ago. According to information licadho-cambodia.org, June 18, were sent to 20 families, 20 more families arrived at the outskirts of the capital last week. Every family, regardless of size, live in a room the size of 3.5 to 4.8 meters.
The settlement on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, known as a colony or village of patients with AIDS.
The initiative of the authorities of Cambodia, led a protest of human rights organizations and groups. Their representatives claim that the sick people are forced to live in terrible conditions, far from the medical and social services, they do not have to work. Defenders point out that the isolation of infected stigmatize them in the eyes of local residents.
Organization for Human Right Watch was a letter addressed to the Prime Minister and Minister of Health of Cambodia. Beneath that are signed up more than 100 global companies that deal with HIV and AIDS, and social problems.
According to the UN in Cambodia, fewer HIV-infected. At the same time, there is a risk that the disease begins to spread again. It is estimated that in 2008 67.2 thousand adults and 3.8 thousand children have been infected with HIV. The population of Cambodia is bolee13 million.
The Government has started to evict people living with HIV and AIDS patients a month ago. According to information licadho-cambodia.org, June 18, were sent to 20 families, 20 more families arrived at the outskirts of the capital last week. Every family, regardless of size, live in a room the size of 3.5 to 4.8 meters.
The settlement on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, known as a colony or village of patients with AIDS.
The initiative of the authorities of Cambodia, led a protest of human rights organizations and groups. Their representatives claim that the sick people are forced to live in terrible conditions, far from the medical and social services, they do not have to work. Defenders point out that the isolation of infected stigmatize them in the eyes of local residents.
Organization for Human Right Watch was a letter addressed to the Prime Minister and Minister of Health of Cambodia. Beneath that are signed up more than 100 global companies that deal with HIV and AIDS, and social problems.
According to the UN in Cambodia, fewer HIV-infected. At the same time, there is a risk that the disease begins to spread again. It is estimated that in 2008 67.2 thousand adults and 3.8 thousand children have been infected with HIV. The population of Cambodia is bolee13 million.
