H.E. Senior Minister Ieng Mouly Invited To Offer Experiences on HIV Response in Cambodia to Conference on Non-Communicable Diseases in Thailand
His Excellency Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, has successfully led a delegation to the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2019, the theme of which is the Political Economy of Non-communicable Diseases: A Whole of Society Approach. The convention was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from January 29 to February 3, 2019.
It should be mentioned that His Excellency the Senior Minister was invited by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2019 to present lessons learned from the response to HIV/AIDS in Cambodia to the participants of the convention, which took place on January 30 and February 2, 2019.
At the conference, His Excellency explained that the fight against AIDS in Cambodia started when Samdech Techo Prime Minister stressed that the disease should be responded from head to toe, meaning everyone should respond to it in a multisectoral fashion. Over the past more than 28 years, the cost of AIDS response has been circa US$800 million. As a result, Cambodia has succeeded in preventing 900,000 people from being infected and saving 600,000 others from AIDS-related death. This is the great social and economic victory for Cambodia.
He added that Cambodia had been recognized as one of the seven countries of the world (Botswana, Cambodia, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden, and England), which had been the most successful in achieving the 90-90-90 target (90% of HIV carriers were aware of their status, 90% of those knowledgeable of their conditions received treatment with antiretroviral drugs, and 90% of treatment recipients had the lowest HIV load in blood. Besides, Cambodia was committed to ending HIV transmission by 2025.
In the present situation where outside aid has continued to decline, funding from the national budget has been on the rise, while we are facing the difficulty in the search for 10,000 AIDS patients not getting into the treatment system, the lack of budget for dispersed health systems, the failure to provide funding to civil society organizations, and the threat of non-communicable diseases. Nonetheless, we are convinced towards wiping out AIDS by 2015, for Cambodia has the ardent political will and technical capability, the economy to keep growth with the space of budget, and the National AIDS Authority as champion to mobilize resources.
Moreover, His Excellency asserted that the Royal Government of Cambodia, headed by Samdech Techo Hun Sen, was resolved to provide universal health service through social protection schemes as well. The social protection policy 2016-2026 is a long-term vision conjured up by the Royal Government to institute an effective and sustainable system and a tool to reduce poverty, vulnerability, and inequality.
H.E. Senior Minister stated to the conference as follows:
1. Care and treatment of patients have been decentralized;
2. Successful provision of antiretroviral drugs has been undertaken through realistic methodologies;
3. Roles of the civil society organizations and private sector should bring about sustainability and ensure rights to health and equity, and
4. Methodology of considering humans as a core problem has been utilized broadly in the health system (No one left behind).
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