February 22nd, 2009
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More: News, Angkor Hospital for Children, Cambodia, children, disease, education, health, hospital, medical, poverty, rural, Satellite Program, Siem Riep, Sot Nikum, training
AHC Satellite Program at Sot Nikum
Helping Change the World for Children in Rural Cambodia
Children are the innocent victims of the most drastic consequences of poverty. In Cambodia, thousands of children die each year of preventable and treatable disease and it is not uncommon for a child to die of complications from respiratory infections, diarrhea, and diseases which are practically eradicated in the more developed countries.
In this impoverished and battered country, the mortality statistics are earthshaking:
- 15% of Cambodian children die before the age of 5
- 35% of Cambodian children are not immunized for polio, measles, or diphtheria
- 45% of Cambodian children under 5 are moderately to severely underweight
- 12,000 Cambodian children under the age of 15 live with HIV/AIDS
