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Asia Regional HIV & AIDS Strategy Workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
17-21 September, 2007

Cambodia has Southeast Asia’s highest rate of HIV infection at 2.6%

164,000 Cambodians are living with AIDS

An estimated 51,000 HIV orphans are under the age of 15

By 2010, children who have lost parents to AIDS estimated to exceed 140,000.

Save the Children is hosting this workshop to share successes and experiences from across the Southeast Asia and Pacific  region.  More than fifty participants from Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal; Philippines, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam and the United States will provide technical updates on issues impacting people and their surroundings and determine future objectives.

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