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HIV/AIDS

HIV stigma can kill

12.08.20

Photo: Bandanh Chaktomok on Facebook.

Rosa was very ill. The application for emergency aid by Untenu stated: she hid her HIV status and therefore did not take HIV medication. Two weeks later She passed away.

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Emergency aid to the poorest LGBTI people with HIV in Cambodia has resumed

09.22.20

Hospital in Battambang

After a break – due to lack of money – Untenu has resumed emergency aid to HIV-positive LGBTI people living in poverty in Cambodia.

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AIDS2020: Chairman Untenu guest at talk show

07.22.20

AIDS2020
 Photo: Kick Smeets for ATLAS Virtual (c) 2020
AIDS2020
Photo: Kick Smeets for ATLAS Virtual (c) 2020

On July 9, Untenu chairman Ron van Zeeland was one of the guests at the daily talk show ATLAS Virtual. He was interviewed about Untenu’s work in Cambodia. Click Read more to watch the broadcast.

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Corona: massage parlors closed, tourists away, no sex work.

05.15.20

All massage parlors in Cambodia had to close due to the government implemented corona measures. Sex workers sometimes finds their clients at massage parlors. This is what Transwoman T.P.  from Siem Reap did to support herself and her family.

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Corona crisis affects LGBTI people with HIV in Cambodia

04.19.20

Covid-19 is affecting LGBTI’s living with HIV in Cambodia. People loose their jobs. No income, no savings and no social security provisions makes people extremely vulnerable in this corona crisis.

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A cargo bike for Chenla

04.07.20

Chenla is a 50-year-old gay man living with HIV. He scours the streets of Phnom Penh in search of reusable waste. Untenu would like to fundraise a cargo bike so that he can increase his range and his income. 

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Poverty & HIV: working on, becoming sicker, die.

03.11.20

(from the archives: Silom Center, Bangkok)

Poverty & HIV; it has a face: that of K. from Battambang. If working in the factory does not yield enough income for his family, he will work in the entertainment business in Bangkok. (updated March 11, 2020)

K. died today, March 11

To our great sadness we learned today that this afternoon K. deceased in the house of his uncle. His mother could not pay the medical costs and took him to his uncle’s home.

Untenu Foundation contributes to the costs for the funeral.

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Positive in the Kingdom of Wonders

03.03.20

Positive

Friday January 6, Untenu Foundation organizes in cooperation with CinemAsia a program with 3 short documentaries about HIV-positive LGBTIQs in Cambodia – the Kingdom of Wonders.

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HIV, diabetes and bronchitis

01.15.20

diabetes
Afbeelding van Alexey Hulsov via Pixabay

A former singer from Kampong Cham was helped this week.  As a person living with HIV with diabetes, he developed bronchitis – for which he was admitted to a hospital in the capital.

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Again aid for HIV patient with tuberculosis

01.09.20

HIV Hepatitis TB

The first request for relief in the new decade was for a 27-year-old drag queen from Kampong Chhnang who worked in the capital Phnom Penh. He stopped working after he was also infected with tuberculosis (TB).Read More

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