Cambodia has become the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to reach a key United Nations milestone for HIV diagnosis and treatment. In 2020, UNAIDS set an ambitious 95-95-95 target for countries to achieve by 2030. The objective is that within each country, 95% of people living with HIV know their status, 95% of HIV-positive people are taking medication that lowers the amount of the virus in their body and 95% of people on those medications have a viral load so low that they have nearly no risk of passing the disease onto others. Only 11 countries in the world have reached this target. Here are some of the ways Cambodia made the list:
🇰🇭 In 1999, the country launched a campaign to encourage couples to always use condoms. By the campaign's early years, more than 80% of sex workers reported using them.
🇰🇭 In 2003, the Cambodian government made HIV medication free after an international financing group called the Global Fund provided the country with a $11.2 million grant.
🇰🇭 Early programs targeted high-risk groups with elevated HIV rates, including the military, police, garment factory workers and sex workers. As HIV rates decreased in the general population, the epidemic became more concentrated among harder-to-reach high-risk groups. | 
