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Good link thanks :hattip:, in reading they appear to treat only Khmer but I've sent an email and will see if they reply
https://www.sihosp.org/copy-of-surgical
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Ozinasia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 5:21 pm Good link thanks :hattip:, in reading they appear to treat only Khmer but I've sent an email and will see if they reply
https://www.sihosp.org/copy-of-surgical
He can and would be better with a private clinic/practitioner anyhow, loads around

All locals get free hiv/aids treatment and care - but that's no barrier to anybody paying their own way using their own doc and a pharmacy. Pharmacie de la garc is good as others have said
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Ozinasia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 12:25 pm to this day he has no idea how he got it and thinks it was from medical procedure he had in Thailand 12 years ago (emergency appendices) he is heterosexual not at all gay.
If I had a $ for every time I've heard this...
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at the end of the day does it matter ? he surely wont be the first or last to have picked it up in a Thai , PI or Cambo bar if that is the case
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schlarry wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 7:18 pm
Ozinasia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 12:25 pm to this day he has no idea how he got it and thinks it was from medical procedure he had in Thailand 12 years ago (emergency appendices) he is heterosexual not at all gay.
If I had a $ for every time I've heard this...
Do some people still harbour views that this (HIV) is a gay disease?
Isn’t that akin to leprosy being considered a poor disease? Sadly, even consistent with some of the attitudes expressed in Cambodia the COVID only affected lower and poorer classes.
It’s just as well that ignorance doesn’t have borders.
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he tells me in UK HIV is very, very much considered a gay disease.
We have spoken about this a lot over the years.
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Considered by who? His numpty friends at the pub?
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Probably though I doubt he has told them he has it.
He feels very ashamed.
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I think there used to be a check box on entry forms to Cambodia asking if you had HIV or AIDs. It was a bit like those forms they use to give you entering the US years ago. One of the questions was on the lines of "Were you a member of the Nazi party between 1939-1945 or have you ever been in any way associated with them?" So even if you were a Nazi infected with AIDs you'd still check the no field.
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Freightdog wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 7:43 pm
schlarry wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 7:18 pm
Ozinasia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 12:25 pm to this day he has no idea how he got it and thinks it was from medical procedure he had in Thailand 12 years ago (emergency appendices) he is heterosexual not at all gay.
If I had a $ for every time I've heard this...
Do some people still harbour views that this (HIV) is a gay disease?
Isn’t that akin to leprosy being considered a poor disease? Sadly, even consistent with some of the attitudes expressed in Cambodia the COVID only affected lower and poorer classes.
It’s just as well that ignorance doesn’t have borders.
Could you kindly show us where my post in any way implied that I thought he was gay? I was referring to the medical procedure claim, which has been used by heterosexual people as well, to discount the possibility that one was infected by normal sexual activity, be it with any gender party. Strange that you assumed.

re: ignorance, try reading carefully, first, LOL
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