Last year, the Cambodian authorities made more than 4,000 drug arrests and seized more than 175 kilograms of narcotics.
A new report released last year by the U.S. Surgeon General focuses on America's troubling substance misuse. VOA Khmer's Ly Moryvan narrates.
It has been reported that 631,000 people on the continent succumb each year to the disease.
Health Minister Mam Bun Heng said bidding for hospitals was conducted in an open and transparent manner and in accordance with the law, while in allocations to the ministry by the Global Fund was not in the ministry’s jurisdiction, rather it was the sole responsibility of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU).
The ministry quickly issued a retraction of the erroneous statement, which said a 44-year-old man in Kampong Cham province had contracted the disease.
Observers say advances in technology had made producing drugs easier and harder to detect.
High levels of unemployment, combined with pressures brought on by studies, work and rising materialism, have contributed to the problem, the experts said.
Hun Sen, however, was quick to distance himself from the tactics employed by his counterpart, whose call for extra-judicial killings to end the “drugs menace” has led to more than 3,000 deaths.
The doctors and health professionals are in nearly two dozen countries, most of the procedures are for patients in Kenya, Tanzania, Guatemala, Nepal and Cambodia.
Nigeria has launched an emergency polio vaccination campaign after two new cases of the disease paralyzed children earlier in August. VOA Khmer's Phy Sopheada narrates.
MIT, Harvard researchers identify single protein that appears to be the disease’s weakness.
The Darul Hijra Mosque of Falls Church, Virginia, is running a volunteer program which sends members to visit the hospitalized patients who do not have any relatives or friends to pay them a visit. VOA Khmer's Phy Sopheada narrates.
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