The Health Sector Support Project (HSSP), which is supported financially by the World Bank, has been implemented by the Ministry of Health for seven years. The HSSP was scaled up to HSSP II in the context of better harmonization among development partners and alignment to government policies, strategies and system. The World Bank Cambodia monthly [...]
Challenge: Cambodia’s health system has improved over the past decade resulting in significant reduction of child mortality, reduction of mortality and morbidity due to communicable diseases such as HIV/ AIDS, TB and malaria, vaccine preventable diseases, and improvement in fertility rate and life expectancy. Despite these improvements, Cambodia still faces challenges. There has been no [...]
“Brothers and sisters at the World Bank Cambodia Office, I would like to thank you all so much for your help and support,” says Bopha (her given name), a mother of two children who is living with HIV/AIDS. She chokes, and tears roll down her emaciated chest as she receives a sewing machine and other [...]
World Bank staff and their families visited vulnerable children who study at Chey Chumas School to hear about their lives and gave them some school materials on Saturday December 9, 2006. Gifts, including uniforms, school bags, books, rulers, erasers, pens and pencils were given to 24 children affected by HIV/AIDS and other 30 students. Beng [...]