HIV testing should continue: pol

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Pech Sotheary

Opposition lawmaker Ke Sovannaroth, head of the National Assembly’s health commission, has called upon the Ministry of Health to resume the offering of blood tests within Kandal’s Peam village, despite assurances that a cluster of HIV diagnoses discovered there does not constitute an outbreak.

Since the start of the year, 16 people have been diagnosed with HIV in the village of 1,039, initially sparking fears of a repeat of the 2014 Roka HIV outbreak that saw hundreds infected.

On February 22, in response to growing worries, the Health Ministry’s National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD Control offered testing at two sites in Peam, which 279 villagers attended, a group that yielded just four positive diagnoses.

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