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As the HIV epidemic in Cambodia has changed, so has World Vision Cambodia’a HIV and AIDS programme. After peaking at over 3% of the adult population HIV prevalence has subsided to a less alarming 0.9%. However, HIV and AIDS have already left a path of destruction leaving many sick and children without their parents. Treatment and care for widows and children and impact mitigation for the large numbers of vulnerable children will continue to be needed in the communities in which WVC works for at least the next two decades.
A recent five year review of WVC’s Home Based Care (HBC) activities and activities for orphans and vulnerable children found that our program meets international standards of excellence and fits well with the Cambodian national strategies. WVC currently delivers similar packages of social protection and health benefits to adults living with HIV and vulnerable children, mostly children affected by AIDS. Through the Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) projects, WVC supports more than 5,000 children. However, many more still need support which the programme hopes to reach in the near future. To date, due to our comprehensive HBC program the quality of life for people living with HIV and AIDS and OVC has improved, as they are experiencing most of the things they consider necessary for a good quality of life. Through the effective linkage of WVC ‘s HBC and the health facility based a large number of adults living with HIV and AIDS in WVC’s project areas are receiving AntiretRoviral Treatment (ART), about 80% of those receiving home care in our target areas. WVC also organizes self-help groups for people living with HIV and AIDS and Community Care Coalition (CCC) that meet regularly to support one another and discuss ways to make life better in their communities. In addition, CCCs advocate to remove for vulnerable children school fees and health care costs. WVC is supporting the OVC and their families by keeping parents alive through Voluntary Confidential Counseling and Testing (VCCT), income generating activities, and providing transport assistance for travel to health centers and healthcare providers for much needed treatments. WVC is focusing on preventing the eight of the ten new infections caused by regular sexual partners and from mother to child. This is done through several projects of health systems strengthening and community mobilization. For example, WVC’s work on prevention of HIV infection in women of childbearing age and their young children is considered one of the best programs in Asia. It is comprehensive and closely integrated with a government-led initiative to fill in the large service national gap. The following are project summaries under HIV and AIDS program: 
Documenting Lessons Learnt and Best Practices of HIV & AIDS Project (DLL)
Models of Learning (MoL)
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV
Home Care and OVC activities
The Center of Excellence for Pediatric HIV/AIDS Management in Cambodia (CEPHAM)Read news/stories from the field on HIV and AIDS click here. |
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