Senior Minister Ieng Mouly: “Private Sector’s Contribution to Response to HIV/AIDS Is Essential and Inseparable”
H.E Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, has said that the private sector’s contribution to the health issue and response to HIV/AIDS is definitely essential and inseparable. This is because according to results from a study sponsored by HP+Palladium, public and private partnerships in diverse forms should be sought, so that they will take part in lending support to health care, including HIV and AIDS.
The Senior Minister made the remarks while presiding over a national workshop, on the private sector’s engagement contribution to the health issue and response to HIV/AIDS, held in collaboration with Health Policy Plus and under the sponsorship USAID at Cambodiana Hotel on 30 May 2019.
H.E. Senior Minister Ieng Mouly, Chair of the National AIDS Authority, added that especially, the potential areas in the cooperation included:
1. Set up mechanism to interact with industry and private businesses within NAA
2. Appeal for the private sector’s participation, through partnership model, in the provision of pre-exposure prophylaxis, insurance, and CD4 count machine.
3. Call on the private sector to incorporate the HIV/AIDS response as an area focusing on corporate social responsibility planning for the coming tears.
4. A robust activity tracking system, fund utilization, and so forth that can be further highlighted to boost the private sector’s confidence in the use of its contributions.
5. Semester and annual reports can be determined further in the dissemination of the project/program progress, including fund inflow and outflow as well as impacts that have been prepared for.
6. For instance, the private sector’s roles at the Global Fund level and other models of the sector’s participation with the Global Fund can be cited.
The Senior Minister also recalled to the workshop that Cambodia is one of the seven countries worldwide that has been recognized of having achieved the 90-90-90 targets in 2017. According to a (April 2019) statistical estimate, at present, Cambodia has 73,552 people living with HIV of which 81% are aware of their status; 99% of those who are aware of being infected with HIV have received antiretroviral therapy, and, according to an estimate, 79% of treatment recipients have low viral load.
Moreover, circa 10,000 people living with HIV have not been tracked down and not yet been incorporated into the AIDS patient care system and the increasing new transmission has been found mostly among young people, specifically among gays and transsexual people.
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Opening Speech by H.E. Ieng Mouly Senior Minister and Chairman of the National AIDS Authority In the Opening Session of the National Workshop on Private Sector Engagement in Healthcare including HIV and AIDS Cambodiana Hotel, May 30, 2019