There are estimated
to be 220,000 HIV/AIDS sufferers in a country of 11.5 million, and relief
workers say the scourge is worsening. To date, AIDS has claimed 80,000
lives, the death toll will likely reach 230,000 by 2010. By 2005 Cambodia
will be home to an estimated 145,000 AIDS orphans who face few alternatives
but to live on Phnom Penh's streets where the sex trade and human trafficking
awaits. NGOs like Family Health International, one of the largest and
most established nonprofit organizations active in international public
health, makes home visits to women like Phhoung Rachany in nearby Kampang
Chhang province. Phhoung, who was in terminal stages of her disease,
died two days after this photo was taken, never knowing if the virus
was passed to her newborn baby. (click the arrow at right to continue
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