Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly and National AIDS Authority’s Top Managers and Officials Gather To Commemorate 66th Independence Day and Consume Ambok With Bananas, Coconuts, and Palm Juice Under Slogan, “Khmer Ambok Defends Nation, Religion, and King”

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, and the authority’s top managers and officials gathered at the National AIDS Authority Headquarters on the afternoon of Saturday, November 9, 2019 to commemorate the 66th November 9 Independence Day, 1953-2019, and consume Ambok (Cambodian rice flakes) with bananas, coconuts, and palm juice, together with their families in an extremely joyful atmosphere under the slogan, “Khmer Ambok Defends Nation, Religion, and King.”   He mentioned that the Ambok-Eating Day held on the morning of November 9, 2019 was to commemorate the National Independence Day and to show the citizens’ solidarity in consuming Ambok to protect peace and defend the Nation, Religion, and King as well as remembe...read more »

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly Holds Working Meeting With Dr. Roberto Garcia, Technical Advisor to New Global Fund Grants

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, held a working meeting with Dr. Roberto Garcia, member of the Global Fund’s Technical Review Team and managing director of the Health Management Support Group in Amsterdam, Nederland, and Dr. Bart Jacobs of GIZ Organization in Cambodia at the authority’s headquarters on the morning of November 7, 2019. Also in attendance at the meeting were top NAA managers and the HP+ technical advisor (Dr. Bhavesh Jain). The discussion centered on the progress towards the sustainable comprehensive multisectoral action plan on response to the spread of HIV, feasible accountability for seeking funding, fund inflow mechanism for response implementation, the effective prevention of the transmission, and the contin...read more »

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly Presides Over National AIDS Authority’s 2019 Conference

The National AIDS Authority held the 2019 Conference to sum up the 2019 work results and set the 2020 target and action plan under the high presidency of Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Chair of the authority, at Vimean Mittaphap Conference Hall of the Council of Ministers Office on the morning of November 6, 2019.    Also present at the event were Excellencies and Lok Chumteavs, secretaries of state, under secretaries of state; deputy governors of the capital city and provinces, heads of the AIDS committees; representative of the Cambodian Red Cross; ladies and gentlemen, heads of the AIDS Secretariats of ministries, institutions, and capital and provincial administrations; representatives of aid donors, development partners, and civil society organizations as well...read more »

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly Presides Over National AIDS Authority’s 2019 Second Plenary Meeting

The National AIDS Authority organized its 2019 Second Plenary Meeting under the high presidency of His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Senior Minister in Charge of Special Mission and Chair of the authority, at Vimean Mittapheap Conference Hall, Office of the Council of Ministers on the morning of November 5, 2019. The meeting, a biannual one, was attended by Excellencies and Lok Chumteav, Secretaries of State; ladies and gentlemen, deputy governors of the capital city and provinces; heads of the AIDS Committees of ministries, institutions, and administrations of the capital city and provinces, as well as members of the Multisectoral AIDS Policy Advisory Board. The purpose of the meeting is to review the update of the situation relating to the spread of HIV and the results of the fight agains...read more »

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly Holds Working Meeting With Mr. Yann Derriennic, Cambodia Country Director of Health Policy Plus (HP+)

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, held a working meeting with Mr. Yann Derriennic, Cambodia country director of the Health Policy Plus (HP+), at the authority’s headquarters on the morning of Thursday, October 31, 2019, with the participation of top NAA managers and HP+ technical advisers.   The meeting centered on the process towards sustainable response to the spread of HIV and on the quest for feasibility of expanding the national budget responsibility for granting funds for civil society organizations to carry on with the task of preventing HIV transmission among high-risk people and boosting funding for antiretroviral drugs (ARV) purchase in the 2021-2023 plan. The Kingdom of Cambodia has contributed US$1.5 million annually ...read more »

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly Greets His Excellency Dr. Donald Kaberuka, Chair of Global Fund Board, Arriving To Visit Kingdom of Cambodia, at Phnom Penh International Airport

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly greeted and held a working meeting with His Excellency Dr. Donald Kaberuka, Chair of the Global Fund Board, at Phnom Penh International Airport on the morning of October 30, 2019.   HE Dr. Donald Kaberuka was elected Chairman of the Global Fund Board in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 3, 2019, for the 2019-2021 term. While being Rwanda's Minister of Finance from 1997 to 2005, he used to serve as Governor for Rwanda for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund from 1997 to 2005 as well. Later, he held the position as Chair of the African Development Bank’s Board of Governors from 2005 to 2015.   He has selected Cambodia, on his trip to attend regional meetings, to scrutinize the results of implementing the program to fight AI...read more »

Cambodian People's Party’s Long-Term Aim of Holding Power Is To Serve People’s Interests Through Respecting Rule of Law on Basis of Maintaining Peace and Development

Basedth: Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority and head of the Central Working Group assisting Basedth District, presided over the opening of the 33rd political course at the Cambodian People's Party office in the district on the morning of October 26, 2019.   In attendance at the event were His Excellency Yim Sokhom, member of the Party Central Committee, permanent president of the Provincial Party Committee, and president of the Kampong Speu Provincial Council as well as Excellencies and gentlemen, the heads, deputy heads, and members of the working group assisting the district and communes, Basedth District’s Party Committee, and 120 trainees.   Following a report presented by the acting president of the District Party Comm...read more »

H.E. Senior Minister Ieng Mouly stated: the Vulnerability of Girls and Young Women to HIV Remains a Major Issue that Should Be Jointly Addressed”

H.E. Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, said that the vulnerability of girls and young women to HIV is still a major issue in the situation that we have encountered and that we need to join forces to address effectively. The vulnerability of girls and young women in general in a vast technological era and vast social networks and of women is the challenge that young women themselves, guardians, families, institutions, educational establishments, the private sector, authorities, and civil society should contribute to prevent and address, while we all have resolved to get involved to achieve the Royal Government’s goal towards ending the transmission of HIV by 2025. H.E. Chair made the remarks while presiding over the forum to discuss promoting gir...read more »

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly Holds Working Meeting With UNAIDS Director to Kingdom of Cambodia

Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, held a working meeting with Mrs. Dr. Vladanka Andreeva, UNAIDS country director to the Kingdom of Cambodia, at the authority’s headquarters on the morning of October 21, 2019.   His Excellency the Senior Minister and the director, Mrs. Dr. Vladanka Andreeva, discussed and exchanged information about the progress and updates on:   A. The elimination of the mother-to-child HIV transmission, achieved under the great leadership and support of Samdech Kittipritthbindit, President of the Cambodian Red Cross and the National Champion of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Forum on HIV / AIDS and development in Cambodia.   B. The outcome of the Global Fund’s Replenishment Conference attende...read more »

Outcome of Global Fund’s Replenishment Conference Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly Attended in Lyon of France on October 9-10, 2019

The outcome of the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment Conference held in Lyon, France, on October 9-10, 2019, that Senior Minister His Excellency Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, attended as the high representative of Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen was announced on the second day of the conference. At the conference starting at 9 a.m., French President His Excellency Emanuel Macron spoke of the global efforts to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. He then asked all the countries present at the conference to contribute $14 billion as planned. He emphasized that should we fail to raise the 14 billion dollars, nobody would be allowed to leave the meeting. The conference proceeded, without recess, until 3.30 p.m. Announcing the total of the raised...read more »