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CRC charts assistance strategy for squatters displaced by fires  
The Cambodian Red Cross held a special meeting earlier this month to decide its assistance strategy for people made homeless by last year's fires in squatter camps in Phnom Penh. Many were left with just the clothes they stood up in....
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Three million to benefit from dengue control in Cambodia  
In the 1990s deaths from dengue cast a long shadow in this largely rural nation, killing nearly 1,200 people in three epidemics. Over 33,000 people contracted the mosquito-borne disease in 1990, 1995 and 1998...
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Cambodian Red Cross launches largest ever health campaign  

With the help of 10,000 Red Cross volunteers, the lives of hundreds of children will be saved by a campaign to treat the water supply of 3.6 million Cambodians for dengue haemorrhagic fever as the peak of the epidemic, expected at the end of July, draws close...
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At last, I found my mother  

I lost hope when leaving CRC Tracing Office. It was in July 2002. I was told by the Tracing Agent that: "It is a very difficult case. It is hard to trace your mother whom you haven't seen since 1967, when you were
only two years old...
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Dengue Fever
The worst utbreak of Dengue Fever hit in l998, when a total of 16,216 cases were reported and 475 people died.

Primary Health Care
Of the 11 million people living in Cambodia, 70% have no access to safe water and 81% lack adequate sanitation.
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