National Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Testing Services in Cambodia

Cambodia had one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in Asia and the Pacific region in the mid-1990s and became one of the few countries to have HIV trend reversed within five years. The HIV estimations and projections conducted in 2016 indicated that the HIV prevalence among general adult populations fell from an estimated peak of 1.7% in 1998 to 0.6% in 2016 and will continue to reach 0.5% by 2020. The number of HIV newly infected yearly is around 700 cases from 2016 to 2020. The decline trend reflects a ten folds reduction in annual new infections in the last twenty years. It is also estimated that approximately 15,000 people living with HIV who do not know their status.