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This case study is featured in the 2025 Global AIDS Update Kalesi Volatabu, founder of Drug Free World Fiji, breaks the ice at drug awareness sessions by sharing her shocking story.
PORT MORESBY, 26 June, 2025—New data reveal alarming rise in cases, particularly among women and children, with mother-to-child transmission rates critically high.
MANILA, 4 June, 2025–The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Philippines calls for immediate and intensified action to address the country’s rapidly escalating HIV epidemic, supporting the call of Department...
Chhum Vy, an outreach worker for Men’s Health Cambodia (MHC), lives in Steung Meanchey, a low-income neighborhood in southern Phnom Penh. She has converted her rental house into a makeshift community...
Arun Seang* works six days a week in a garment factory in Phnom Penh. In the past when he needed time off to go to the HIV clinic he came up...
PHNOM PENH, 16 May 2025—UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, saw firsthand Cambodia’s strong progress towards ending AIDS as a public health threat during her 12-16 May mission. Among other achievements, the...
Em Ra disappears into the house twice, slipping past the shrine of flowers and incense by the front door. First, she brings out an old HIV magazine. She flips to a...
In 2010, at age 23, Ayu Oktariani learned she was HIV positive. Not only did she lose her husband to AIDS, but during her pregnancy her daughter was infected.
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