In April we provided – together with our local partner Bandanh Chaktomok – four times emergency aid: twice to a gay man living with HIV, twice to trans women living with HIV. We are currently looking for an internship for the young man.Read More
HIV/AIDS
AIDS Candlelight Memorial 2019
Sunday May 19 is the day Untenu Foundation – in cooperation with Mara Projecten – organises the fourth edition of AIDS Candlelight Memorial. For the third time in Rotterdam. Starting at 5 PM, free admission. Remembering our beloved ones who we lost because of AIDS.Read More
4 x emergency aid in 8 weeks
This year we have already helped ten people, four of whom in the last eight weeks. All gay men with HIV who did not have the money for much needed food and medical help. An overview.
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5 years of sex work – deceased at home
Update January 31: At the age of eighteen, R.P.went to Thailand and worked as a sex worker for five years. Now he is 23 and went home sick: AIDS & TB. Our help was of no avail, R.P. is deceased.
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Young man with TB and HIV deceased
The new year was just beginning or bad news came: H.S. (33) from Battambang – who suffered from TB & HIV – died.
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This week: emergency aid for 1 gay man, 1 trans woman & 1 lesbian
Last week we received 3 requests at Untenu to assist people with HIV: a gay man of 30; a transwoman of 28 and finally a lesbian of 28 years old.
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Drag Queen in Phnom Penh deceased
Halfway through Rotterdam Pride we got a request to help K.C.: he was admitted with stomach problems. Besides HIV, he was also infected with tuberculosis (TB). A week later he died. Our help was of no avail.Read More
Fortune teller in Poipet
Her name is PC, she is 57 years old, transgender and she earns her money as a fortune teller at the Poipet market, where she also cleans on demand. She has known for 10 years that she is HIV-positive, but became ill because she didn’t have enough money to take her medicine with food.Read More
HIV & TB: double trouble
The HIV virus is one of the causes of the global tuberculosis epidemic. According to the World Health Organisation, by 2015 there were 1.2 million HIV-infected people worldwide who received TB (source: KNCV Tuberculose Fonds). Today, we provided money for a 33-year-old gay man who, in addition to HIV, also contracted tuberculosis.Read More
A hidden life with HIV
Y.N. worked as a journalist in Phnom Penh. Nobody knew why he often stayed at home ill. He hid his HIV status. And now he has lost his job.Read More