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STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 01, 2020 • 8 min read

Analysis Cambodia is an AIDS success story, but Covid-19 risks undermining that

By David Wilkinson • Dec 01, 2020
As the world marks World AIDS Day 2020 amidst a novel pandemic, health consultant David Wilkinson warns against complacency as Cambodia's successful fight against HIV/AIDS in recent decades risks coming undone as healthcare is stretched and the economy slows

STORY OF THE DAY • Mar 17, 2020 • 6 min read

Whatever happened to Cambodia’s ‘HIV village’

By Paul Millar • Mar 17, 2020
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

Jul 23, 2019 • 13 min read
HIV-AIDS in Indonesia

Going viral

HIV remains a serious problem in Indonesia. And as the government's anti-LGBT crackdown drives more and more people in search of answers, misinformation about the disease can prove fatal
By Evie Breese • Jul 23, 2019

Jul 22, 2019 • 12 min read
HIV-AIDS

My body, this temple

From our print archive: A hospice for dying HIV-AIDS patients has found a unique way to raise funds by turning their anguish into a tourist attraction
By Andrew MacGregor Marshall • Jul 22, 2019

Dec 04, 2018 • 4 min read
Health

How Indonesia's fight against HIV and AIDS is undermined by LGBT 'panic'

In May 2017, Jakarta cops raided the Atlantis gay gym and sauna, which was also a public health outreach centre, arresting 141 men, some of whom were prosecuted under Indonesia’s pornography law. Since 2016, officials in the Muslim-majority nation have wielded the four-letter “LGBT” as an epithet and warning…
By Tom O'Connell • Dec 04, 2018

Feb 18, 2016 • 11 min read
Suspicious psychology

Are conspiracy theorists misguided – or onto something?

From Vietnam’s secret powers and the Jewish plot for world domination to the calculated spread of HIV, the conspiracy theory is alive and well in Southeast Asia. The thing is, some experts say they might not be as fanciful as we imagine
By David Hutt • Feb 18, 2016

Dec 19, 2014 • 3 min read
Cambodia

Hun Sen “misinformed” over Cambodia’s mass HIV infection, says Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Virologist jointly credited with discovering HIV calls for calm Françoise Barré-Sinoussi – credited along with her colleague Luc Montagnier as the discoverer of HIV – has said that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has been “misinformed”, following his comments regarding an outbreak of the virus in Battambang province, in Cambodia’s northwest
By David Hutt and Dene Mullen • Dec 19, 2014