While the costs of HIV/AIDS continue to hamper developing countries, Cambodian officials announced on World AIDS Day yesterday that the Kingdom is making significant headway in reducing mother-to-child transmissions.

The national mother-to-child transmission rate now sits at two per cent, which far exceeds the national target of less than five per cent before 2015.

“[T]his year’s outstanding achievement is the growing rate of pregnant women using services to reduce transmission of HIV from mother to child and the growing rate of HIV-carrying pregnant women receiving treatment to prevent transmission,” National AIDS Authority chairman Ieng Mouly said at an event in Phnom Penh.

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