Press Conference: Food for All People Living with HIV/AIDS, especially Women and Children
When: Monday, 21 May 2007 at 9 a.m.
Where: Womyn?s Agenda for Change (WAC), #1, Sisowath Quay, Sangkat Srak Chak, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
HIV-Positive women and children from four provinces will give accounts of dire conditions and their urgent food needs. Food security for people living with HIV/AIDS, the focus of new research, will be highlighted in an event to mark the Global AIDS Week of Action, starting 21 May.
Other speakers will share their work related to food relief, including the president of the National Assembly?s Commission of Public Health, Social, Veteran, Rehabilitation, Vocational Training and Women Affairs, and representatives from the World Food Programme WFP, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and the National AIDS Authority (NAA).
The Cambodian Alliance for Combating HIV/AIDS (CACHA) will present findings from its recent survey of 192 HIV-positive people in Phnom Penh, Prey Veng and Kampot. One of the major finding is 31 people or 16% have never received any support from any relief NGOs or public institutions. Other major findings including the number of HIV-positive people who don?t have enough food to eat, who don?t have access to food at all, and their daily income will be highlighted in the conference.
Representatives from more than 30 local and International NGOs, media, members of Cambodian Alliance for Combating HIV/AIDS (CACHA) and about 100 activists, networks of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), men who have sex with men (MSM), sex worker?s unions, trade unions, NGOs, and student associations will join in the conference.
CACHA was established in 2006 with an ambitious initiative, aligned to the Asia Pacific People?s alliance for Combating HIV/AIDS (APPACHA) to respond to the growing need to address HIV/AIDS from a multi-sectoral approach. It tries to bring together important stakeholders and actors including activists, networks of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), men who have sex with men (MSM), sex worker?s unions, trade unions, NGOs, broadcasters, parliamentarians and student associations ? to become a wider alliance. CACHA serves a catalyst to influence players -- state governments, politicians, policy makers, planners, administrators, implementers and the UN ? to address the real needs of HIV-positive people in Cambodia.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Ms. PRY PHALLY PHUONG, Senior Program Officer
Womyn?s Agenda for Change
Tel: + 855 (012) 988 054
Fax: +855 (023) 722 435
E-mail:
wac@womynsagenda.org
Website:
www.womynsadenda.org
