TB and AIDS care for 500 poor Cambodians

Dear Friends and Supporters,

I would like to highlight a few of the extraordinary achievements that your generosity has made possible over the past 6 months and ask you to consider continued support.

In the first six months of 2011 the Cambodian Health Committee (CHC)/Global Health Committee (GHC) has accomplished the following with your support:  

• 3,134 people in rural Cambodia have been initiated on therapy for drug-sensitive tuberculosis 

• We have performed 868 GeneXpert tests on children with suspected tuberculosis from rural Svay Reing province in an effort to provide early diagnosis and care and to provide information to the international community on optimal diagnostic approaches to TB in children.  

• 148 children under 5 years of age in rural Svay Rieng have been treated for TB, which otherwise could have permanently disabled them or caused their deaths

• 540 children have regularly received AIDS drugs in CHC’s programs in Phnom Penh (at the Maddox Children’s Center and the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital) and in CHC's rural AIDS clinics in Svay Reing and Kampong Trach provinces

• 19 community health workers have made 4,740 village visits in rural Cambodia to educate and help monitor patients receiving TB drugs in remote locations

 • 654 lunches were provided to children infected or affected by HIV who attend the Maddox Chivan Center

 • 17 people were initiated on therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)

 • Over 4,000 people have regularly received care at CHC’s rural AIDS clinics in Svay Reing and Kampong Trach provinces

We are deeply grateful for your generosity, which has helped us to uphold the basic human right of access to medicines to cure TB and to give people with HIV the chance to live. 

We hope that you will continue to give us your trust and support.