WHO, Phnom Penh: No Regional HIV Outbreak

A suspected outbreak of HIV in Kandal province is unlikely, Cambodian health officials say following an investigation. Only four out of 279 people tested positive for the virus in Peam village, Sambour Meas commune, in Kandal in February, according to a joint statement by the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health. Health officials had worried about an outbreak similar to that in Battambang in 2014, when an unlicensed doctor treated patients with dirty needles and...

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