The first case of HIV in Cambodia was detected in 1991. In March 1992 the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) began arriving in the country. Over 20,000 military and civilian personnel from 100 countries were deployed to oversee normalisation of the country as decades of civil war was officially brought to an end. … More Wat Opot
I have European friends in Phnom Penh who went broke helping people. They are closer to retirement than away from it and they are in debt with no assets despite having well paid jobs as professionals with international organisations for many years. They have lived in a few different developing countries over the past twenty … More Different Degrees of Broke
HIV rates in Cambodia peaked in the late 1990s at around 2%. This was one of the highest rates in Asia and was considered to be a burgeoning epidemic which could easily have progressed in the same way as epidemics seen in many sub-Saharan African countries where rates have soared to as high as 20%. … More Carrying the Stigma of HIV
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