Asian People’s Alliance for Combating HIV&AIDS

The Charter of Demands was made with the participation from 200 members of Cambodian Alliance for Combating HIV/AIDS with acronyms of (CACHA) and all those participants at Provinces, Municipality and relevant stakeholders include individual, activists, network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, entertainment service worker unions, group of men who have sex With Men, Transgender (Krom Srey Sras), trade unions, researchers, broadcasters, medical doctors, National and International organizations at local and national levels during One Week One Voice Campaign activities of Global AIDS Week of Action and Candlelight Memorial Day under a topic on Universal Access for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Cambodia commencing 18-24 May 2008 and One Week, One Voice campaign activities were made and implemented at Local and National level as follows:

Improvement understanding of Universal Access for People Living with HIV/AIDS that we organized on 12th May 2008 (From 8.00 AM?5.00 PM) at Women Agenda for Change?s office (WAC),
Mobilization of People Living with HIV/AIDS at community level to demand Universal Access through appropriate local, national and international response that was held 13th -19th May 2008.
Develop Charter of Demands on Universal Access through civil society consensus to be submitted to national and international including United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) for urgent response commencing 20th?21st May 2008.
Press Conference at national level: Global AIDS Week of Action and Candlelight Memorial Day campaigns under a topic on Universal Access for all People Living with HIV/AIDS in Cambodia that was organized 22nd May 2008 (8.00 AM?11.30 AM) at Women Agenda for Change? s office.

One Week, One Voice campaign activities was made and implemented as the outcome of Charter of Demands as follows:

Means of Prevention

Voluntary Confidential Counseling and Testing must be qualified and free of charge.
Prevent from Mother to Child Transmission program (PMTCT) must be expanded broadly with quality and free of charge for pregnant women.
Increasing and expanding educational program on HIV/AIDS, STDs and TB widely among national and international institutions to all environment.
Provide opportunities and educational services for all orphans and vulnerable children to access school with free of charge including educational materials and stop discrimination.
Increasing and strengthen additional human resources to respond the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
World leaders should develop and implement resource package for prevention program that has been historically promised at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) of Universal Access in 2005 with accountability and transparency.

Means of Treatment

Provide sufficient and all kind of the unexpired Antiretroviral (ARV) and Opportunistic Infection (OIs) drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Medical staff must provide a close and friendly-treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS and must obey their code of product.
There must be a regular and scientific monitoring system such as CD4 Check and Viral load machine for people living with HIV/AIDS with free of charge.
Increasing and strengthen the quality of treatment and care service with comprehensive for people living with HIV/AIDS.
There must be treatment service with free of charge for HIV positive garment workers.
There must be a health center that provides the symptoms of diagnostics and treatment for women.
Medical staff should attend a meeting with people living with HIV/AIDS in purpose to exchange the opinions regarding treatment service.
Must provide literacy of using ARV and OIs drugs
Donors must plan to manage further resources to provide OIs and first, second and third line of ARV drugs in sufficient and all kind with free of charge.
World leaders should develop and implement resource package for treatment program that has been historically promised at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) of Universal Access in 2005 with accountability and transparency.

Means of Care and Support

Must provide agricultural technique skills, other vocational training skills as well as capital and markets for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Increasing/strengthen and provide job opportunities for people living with HIV/AIDS in terms to fully participate in policing, programs and mechanism implementation on HIV/AIDS at all levels.
Must provide the continuity of food/nutrition for people living with HIV/AIDS through revisiting the guidelines of Home-Based Care (Support nutrition and employments).
Should offer incentives for people living with HIV/AIDS who work voluntarily (i.e. 50$ up per month)
Must provide appropriate shelter and drop-in center for orphans and vulnerable children and people living with HIV/AIDS.
Provide Home-Based Care with quality and respect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS.
World leaders should develop and implement resource package for care and support program that has been historically promised at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) of Universal Access in 2005 with accountability and transparency.

HIV/AIDS and Human Right

End stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS
Stop all forms of violence against women and children: case 1 Police detained female sex workers causing them not to get and take their medicines or sex abuse on women, case 2 women and children have been sexually abused and their rights.
Stop all forms of exploitation on people living with HIV/AIDS.
Factory or company owners must respect the HIV/AIDS Law and Human Rights.
Government, Network of people living with HIV/AIDS (CPN+) as well as national and international institutions and private sector must reinforce the implementation of the AIDS law with effective, accountability and transparency.
Network of people living with HIV/AIDS must coordinate the needs and suggestions of people living with HIV/AIDS at all levels with effective, accountability and transparency.
People living with HIV/AIDS propose CPN+ networks at the provinces to give more attention on the issues of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Network of people living with HIV/AIDS (CPN+) must be in liaison with the existing self-help groups at all arrears in order to become legal groups in the network and be presented.

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