Dedication Ceremony Wednesday November 21st, Prey Veng Province
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS organization in the United States, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, and Asia, is honored to announce the opening of its newest free AIDS treatment center in Cambodia. The facility, AHF's seventh in the country, opens Wednesday, November 21st in Pea Reang with a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony at the facility at the Pea Reang Referral Hospital in Prey Veng Province. The Cambodian clinics are a partnership between AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the Ministry of Health, Royal Government of Cambodia and Cambodia's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STI Control (NCHADS). The partnership aims to provide life-saving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to people living with HIV/AIDS in Cambodia in care centers in the Operational Districts (OD) of several provinces throughout the country. Other ART centers in the partnership in Cambodia include sites in Phnom Penh, and in the provinces of Kandal, Kampong Thom, Kampot, Stung Treng and Svay Rieng.
"AHF, the Cambodian Ministry of Health and NCHADS are honored to open
our seventh collaborative ART center in Cambodia at Pea Reang, a facility
which will bring relief, positive changes, better quality life and above
all hope of life to those in need in Prey Veng Province," said Dr.
Chinkholal Thangsing, Asia Pacific Bureau Chief for AIDS Healthcare
Foundation. "Over the next five years, we will work together to expand and
increase our collaborative initiatives in Cambodia, and AHF will continue
to provide technical support and strengthen the roll out of antiretroviral
treatment and the scale up of ART delivery services in Cambodia. It is our
sincere hope that this collaboration between AHF and NCHADS will not only
improve access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment throughout Cambodia, b
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