CAMBODIA
Founded in 1994, the Cambodian Health Committee (CHC) - a local Cambodian NGO - transformed TB and HIV treatment.
CHC pioneered successful community-based TB, drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), and HIV treatment programs for adults and children within Cambodia working in partnership with the Cambodian Ministry of Health. Care is delivered from the hands of local health workers and we use science to find new approaches to save lives and improve quality of life.
CHC works in rural and urban Cambodia and ensures that people - who would otherwise lack access to care - receive the treatment they need to cure TB, DR-TB and to treat HIV.
PROJECTS
Maddox Chivan Children’s Center for children affected by HIV
Access to pediatric HIV/AIDS Medical Care in Phnom Penh: the Sullivan Center
A grandmother comes with her 8 year old grandson for his first visit for HIV treatment at the Sullivan HIV Clinic for Kids. His mother had recently died from AIDS and having previously lost his father to AIDS, he came to Phnom Penh to live with his grandmother.
Healing the world one life at a time
Initiation and countrywide scale up of community-based TB treatment
Left: The first patient to receive HIV medication in rural Cambodia in December 2003. Right: With 2 of his 7 grandchildren at his home in Svay Rieng, October 2024.
Access to treatment for HIV/AIDS and HIV/TB and the CAMELIA trial
Left: 6 year old How hospitalized close to death with HIV and TB after his mother died of AIDS. Right: A year later after start of HIV drugs and cure of TB by the MCCC team.
