By, For and About Positive People

From the July/August issue of Global AIDSLink, published by the Global Health Council, this article is a first-person account of the use of interpersonal communication as a support for empowerment of HIV-positive people in the Khmer region of the border of Cambodia. The author writes about her experience as a person living with HIV/AIDS in a culture of stigmatisation and her empowerment through the personal testimony of a woman living with HIV/AIDS and through her participation in a support group of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).


The author joined with PLWHA to demand better access to medical services through a local group called Road of Life (Vithey Chivit). Her fight against discrimination led her to create, with a group of 28 women, the “Women for Hope Club". The club, Cambodia's first HIV positive women's group, serves as a source of emotional support, assistance, and income generation.


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