Health

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 02, 2020 • 13 min read

COVID-19 On the tail of a virus

By Miriam Deprez and Andrew Haffner • Apr 02, 2020
In Phnom Penh, US researchers have teamed up with the Pasteur Institute to conduct vital work tracking the spread and mutation of Covid-19. Their research has placed Cambodia at the heart of Southeast Asia's efforts to stem the spread of the disease and find a cure

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 01, 2020 • 4 min read

Refugees and the displaced Jan Egeland: Humanitarian work must adapt to dangers of Covid-19

By Andrew Haffner • Apr 01, 2020
Jan Egeland has been Secretary General of humanitarian group the Norwegian Refugee Council since 2013, overseeing projects in more than 30 countries globally. He spoke with the Globe this week about how Covid-19 has, overnight, dramatically changed the way the industry works with refugees and the displaced

Health • STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 27, 2020 • 6 min read

Tales of the Pandemic Quarantine in the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital

By Andrew Haffner • Mar 27, 2020
After coming down with a fever three weeks ago, an expat was admitted to Phnom Penh's Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. In the second of our personal essays looking at life during COVID-19, we publish their account of life inside a Cambodian government quarantine

Health • Mar 26, 2020 • 2 min read
COVID-19

Nine doctors die from coronavirus in Philippines

The Philippines' top medical association said that nine doctors have died from COVID-19, with hospitals overwhelmed and medics complaining about a lack of protection on the front line
By Chia Chi Hsu • Mar 26, 2020

Health • Mar 24, 2020 • 1 min read
COVID-19

Laos confirms first cases of COVID-19

Laos becomes Southeast Asia's final country to confirm cases of COVID-19 as two people in the capital Vientiane test positive on March 24
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Mar 24, 2020

Health • Mar 24, 2020 • 3 min read
COVID-19

Myanmar confirms first coronavirus cases

After weeks of claiming to have zero cases despite its 2,100-kilometre border with China, Myanmar has finally confirmed its first COVID-19 cases
By Sun Myat Mon and Richard Sargent • Mar 24, 2020

Health • Mar 24, 2020 • 11 min read
Cosmetic surgery

The ugly face of Cambodia’s beauty industry

Most Read Archive Story: Despite the grave dangers associated with cosmetic procedures in Cambodia, the beauty business in Phnom Penh is booming
By Sam Bradpiece • Mar 24, 2020

Health • Mar 19, 2020 • 10 min read
Refugee camps and COVID-19

When social distancing isn’t an option

As the world locks down and social distancing goes into full effect to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in Bangladesh don’t hold such a luxury. What happens if the virus takes hold in the world’s most vulnerable communities?
By Miriam Deprez and Andrew Haffner • Mar 19, 2020

Health • Mar 17, 2020 • 6 min read
Whatever happened to

Cambodia’s ‘HIV village’

Archive Top Read: In 2014, an unlicensed medic infected almost 300 people with HIV in Battambang province's Roka village. In 2017, we visited the residents of the village, who were still picking up the pieces three years on
By Paul Millar • Mar 17, 2020

Health • Mar 16, 2020 • 6 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

Life inside a Vietnamese government quarantine

British citizen Gavin Wheeldon has been held in a Vietnamese government quarantine near Hanoi since March 14. Here he provides an insight on what day-to-day life is like under complete lockdown
By Gavin Wheeldon • Mar 16, 2020

Health • Feb 27, 2020 • 11 min read
Indonesian public health

Meeting the mark

Despite being Southeast Asia's largest economy, Indonesia's children are among the most stunted and malnourished in the world. The Globe looks at the causes of this public health crisis in the vast archipelago nation
By Alastair McCready • Feb 27, 2020