Cambodian News

Approximately 19,000 Cambodians are blinded each year from cataracts, a clouding of the lens common in the elderly, a US-Cambodian doctor said Thursday.
“The lens is the clear part of the eye that helps focus light or an image on the retina,” said Taing Tek Hong, a physician at the Borland-Groover clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., who [...]

Health agencies say they are worried about a high number of HIV infections among indirect sex workers, drug needle sharers and men who have sex with men.
Infections have risen since the inception of an anti-trafficking law that has driven sex workers out of brothels, where condoms are easily distributed, and into entertainment venues where distribution [...]

The decision of US President Barrack Obama earlier this year to end a travel ban on HIV and AIDS victims is the beginning of a new era for them, a Cambodian health official said Monday.
The lifting of the 22-year-old ban removes barriers and reduces discrimination for victims, How Bun Leng, deputy director general of the [...]

A 51-year-old woman succumbed to the H1N1 virus, officials said Thursday, bringing the death toll to four, with the total amount of confirmed cases in the country at 239.
The death comes as Phnom Penh is preparing for the annual Water Festival, which draws millions of people to crowd the capital’s waterfront for three days.
Health officials [...]

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday ordered all clinics nationwide to send patients suspected of carrying the H1N1 flu virus to state hospitals, following the third documented death from the disease Tuesday.
Officials estimate around 120 people have been infected with the virus, sometimes called swine flu.
Sok Touch, director of the Ministry of Health’s communicable disease [...]

The H1N1 flu has killed its first victim in Cambodia, a 40-year-old woman, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Monday.
The virus has infected 88 people in the country so far, and the death has put health officials on alert.
“This is the first case,” Hun Sen said, at the inauguration of a new Ministry of Tourism building. [...]

On June 11, the WHO signaled that a pandemic of H1N1 flu had begun. The virus, sometimes called swine flu, has spread from Mexico to all corners of the world, but it has also been less deadly that initially feared.
Still, a leading health expert told reporters in Washington Tuesday, the illness should not be underestimated.
“As [...]

Lowering blood pressure, improving diet and quitting smoking can help reduce the causes of stroke, a malady with risks increasing with age, poor diet and other factors, a doctor said Thursday.
Taing Tek Hong described two kinds of strokes to “Hello VOA” listeners, one in which a blood clot or other blockage reaches the brain and [...]

“Finding Face,” which examines the life of Tat Marina, a karaoke star who was terribly disfigured and nearly killed in an acid attack, will show in Portland on Sunday.
Meanwhile, members of her family have gone into hiding under the protection of UNHCR, for fear of reprisals.
Tat Marina was the mistress of a powerful official, whose [...]

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) – Cambodia’s confirmed A/H1N1 flu cases have increased to 21 on Monday, a health official said here Monday.
The latest cases were two Khmers who traveled from Hong Kong, but so far, nobody died of the virus in Cambodia, Sok Touch, director of Communicable Disease Control Department of [...]