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FROM: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11310931
By Guy De Launey
BBC News, Phnom Penh
Methadone is a heroin substitute used to treat withdrawal symptoms
Cambodia has launched the country's first methadone-treatment programme, in a new approach to help heroin users.
The World Health Organization (WHO) told the BBC that
addiction was widely viewed in Cambodia as a social problem, rather than
a health issue.
Until now the government has favoured treatment centres which emphasise hard work and exercise.
But health workers and human rights grou
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FROM: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52908
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Sep 21 , 2010 (IPS) - Cambodia’s partial success in reducing child mortality rates
has exposed a fault line of inequity, one that underscores the
advantage that the country’s urban population has had over the
rural poor.
Yet the South-east Asian kingdom, 35 percent of whose 14
million population live below the poverty line, is not alone
in having this mixed record of reducing child mortality, say
child rights experts.
Some of the other countries in the region reflect a
similar trend 10 years after world leaders committed to meet
a set of eight targets to help the world’s poor by 2015. The
fourth of the eight U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
seeks to achieve a two-thirds reduction in child mortality
rates by 2015.
"To be fair to governments in South-east Asia, chil
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