 Senior Minister for Special Mission Ieng Mouly, Chairman of National Aids Authority, says about 14% of almost 30,000 Cambodian sex workers in the country live with HIV/AIDS.
The remark was made in an interview with SEATV at NAA's office on Tuesday afternoon of February 4, 2014.
HE Ieng Mouly outlines that NAA in cooperation with development partners in AIDS sector and relevant ministries and institutions are currently paying much attention to the three most risky groups to HIV/AIDS. The groups are female workers in entertainment (sex) service sector, male homosexuals and drug users with drug injection.
According to NAA's statistics, 14% of the first risky group live with HIV/AIDS while 2% of the second risky group live with HIV/AIDS where as the third group is classified in high rate as ...read more »
Monthly leadership meeting of NAA is held under the chairmanship of HE Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chairman of NAA in order to hear January's progress report by the general-secretariat and to discuss a retreat plan.
The meeting of January 29, 2014 were participated by HE Vice-Chairmen, Advisers, Director General, Deputy Director Generals, and Directors of Departments of NAA.
The meeting focused mainly on the retreat plan which will take place in early February this year. HE Chairman outlines that the retreat is aimed at building a better understanding and a closer relationship among NAA staff and key players for AIDS sector in the country so that they can achieve the 7 point policy and 3 zero goal set out by the government and the UN by the year 2020.
The meeting ano ...read more »
On January 28, 2014, in the afternoon, at NAA headquarters, there was a meeting of the Executive Committee of Global Fund Country Coordination Committee (CCC) under patronage of H.E. Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority (NAA) and Chair of CCC.
Attendants to this meeting were:
· Dr. Pieter Van Marren, Vice-Chair and Mr. Daniel Dimik, Vice-Chair
· Ms. Marie-Odile Edmont, UNAIDS coordinator in Cambodia, Member
· Ms. Inga Oleksy, Co-Chair of Oversight Committee, Member.
The meeting examined and discussed remaining issues in connection with procedure of continuous granting by global fund and the f ...read more »
On January 27, 2014, at the Senate, H.E. Ms. Men Sam An, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Relations with National Assembly (NA), Senate and Inspection presided over a consultative meeting on mechanism to formulate national policy to control alcohol consumption.
The meeting was organized by the 8th Senate Committee with assistance from IOGT. 120 representatives of National Assembly, Government, Academic and Civil Societies organizations participated in the meeting.
H.E. Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority also attended this consultative meeting. The meeting was aimed at exchanging ideas to determine national policy including in four important points as follows:
- Increasing tax on alcohol consumption
- Prohibiting alcohol com ...read more »
On January 22, 2014, at the NAA, Senior Minister Ieng Moly, Chair of the NAA presided over the first meeting of the GDJ-TWG on HIV/AIDS in 2014 to discuss on several topics: 1) the progress of the JMIs (2012-2013); 2) the update of the new development of the NAA structure and leadership as well as the 7 points policy and the development cooperation and partnership strategy; 3) the concept note on the structure and function of the GDJ -TWG on HIV and AIDS and 4) the formulation of the JMIs (2014-2018). ...read more »
On January 16, 2014, at the Ministry of Health, there was a meeting of the Country Coordinating Committee of the Global Fund to elect a new chairman of the CCC for the new mandate 2014-2015, in replacement of the outgoing chair, Dr. Tia Phalla whose term has ended.
The composition of the CCC is as follows: six representatives of the government sectors, four representatives of the donors and 10 representatives of civil society, private sectors and key affected by people.
Senior Minister Ieng Mouly was elected with 15 votes Yes, 1 vote No and 4 Votes Abstention.
Once elected, the new chair of the CCC took his new responsibility by presiding over the meeting according to agreed upon agenda.
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Make Public Directive on Private and Public Sector together for the well-being of people
On January 15, 2014, at the Ministry of Health, Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chhayly, Chairman of the Council for Agriculture and Rural Development accompanied by Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chairman of the National AIDS Authority presided over a meeting of health officials to make public a new government directive for a close cooperation between public and private sector working together for the well-being of the Cambodian People.
The Deputy Prime Minister encouraged public and private sectors to work hand-in-hand to promote local products, to produce local medicines and pharmaceutical products, with reasonable price but with high quality.
Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of NAA empha ...read more »
Ground-Breaking Ceremony for
The Construction of Chhrey Thom Bridge.
On January 14, 2014, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia and H.E Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam presided over a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of Chhrey Thom bridge that links Cambodia to Vietnam.
The new bridge will help ease the land traffic between the two countries.The cost of the bridge construction will be shared half by
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Inauguration of Cho Ray Hospital
On January 13, 2014, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia and H.E Nguyen Tan Dung, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam presided over the inauguration ceremony of Cho Ray Hospital in Chhbar Ampouw, Phnom Penh.
The Construction of the Phnom Penh Cho Ray hospital cost 42 Million US Dollars. It covers 1 hectare of building and 5 hectares of land.
Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority also attended the inauguration ceremony.
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On January 10, 2014, at NAA headquarters, at 14:00, Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority (NAA) met Dr. Pieter Van Maaren, WHO Representative to Cambodia for a courtesy call after the NAA Chair’s official appointment in October 2013. The NAA Chair, after welcoming the Representative visit, informed the latter of the seven point policy directives of the Royal Government dated December 17, 2013. One of those points stated that the NAA has leading roles on aid effectiveness and bears the responsibility for a nationwide HIV and AIDS response. To improve the collaboration between key stakeholders, the Royal Government agreed to restructure the leadership of NAA whereby the Minister of Health has been appointed as the 1st Vice Chair of NAA. For his part, Dr. ...read more » |
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