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Country Profiles

Programs

FHI supports Cambodia and its organizations in reducing HIV and STI transmission and improving HIV/AIDS care and support mainly among commercial sex workers and their clients, those at highest risk for HIV infection in the country.

PRASIT

Official name and translation: Project for HIV and AIDS Strategic Technical Assistance (PRASIT); Prasit means "effectiveness" in Khmer
 
Dates: 2007–2010
  
Region or province: Nationwide; key strategic provinces and municipalities include Phnom Penh, Battambang, Kampong Cham, Banteay Meanchey and Pailin
 
Funded by: USAID [GFATM 5 and 7 and HAARP (AusAID) also follow the PRASIT strategic approach]
 
Managing (principal) partners: Family Health International (FHI), Cambodian Women for Peace and Development (CWPD), and Pharmaciens Sans Frontieres (PSF-CI)
 
Main objective: to maintain, enhance, and improve the quality of Cambodia's HIV response

 Learn more about PRASIT »

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IMPACT Project

Through the IMPACT Project, FHI worked with the national government and NGOs at the community level to strengthen care and support systems, prevent HIV transmission, and promote behavior change.  These programs:

  • Helped women to negotiate safe sex
  • Educated uniformed services personnel and other mobile populations about HIV/AIDS
  • Built institutional care and support capacity
  • Reintegrated orphans and other vulnerable children into extended or foster families

From 1998 through 2007, the IMPACT Project in Cambodia provided technical assistance to the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology, and STIs in designing, implementing, and analyzing data of the HIV Sentinel Surveillance (HSS) survey, the Behavioral Surveillance Survey (BSS), and two national STI prevalence and algorithm validation studies.

Further efforts in Cambodia

We have also worked in Cambodia to:

  • Support the implementation of the government's 100% condom use policy.
  • Develop a package of public health interventions that address HIV/AIDS/STI prevention and reproductive health issues related to the sex industry.
  • Strengthen the government, private sector, and NGO's capacity in STI management, especially for sex workers, other women at high risk, and MSM in Phnom Penh.
  • Facilitate closer links between direct and indirect sex workers, government and NGO STI providers.
  • Develop HIV/AIDS/STI workplace interventions for private sector companies with large numbers of potentially vulnerable staff, particularly female promotions staff who are highly mobile and often expected to sell sex.
  • Implement a pilot HIV/TB project in collaboration with the Gorgas Institute of the University of Alabama in Birmingham and the National Tuberculosis Program.
  • Support innovative community-based projects for orphans and vulnerable children.
  • Participate in developing a continuum of care project in the highly affected northwestern province of Battambang.

View the Final Report for IMPACT's Cambodia program.