Oeung Panharo, eleven years old and HIV positive plays cards with his HIV positive brother Oeung Panhara, nine years, and a neighbour, at their grandmothers house in Deam Sleng Village in Phnom Penh.

 

Oeung Panhara wash. Oung's mother allegedly contracted aids from his’s father who was infected by a sex worker. Their mother died from AIDS related illness five years ago and their father six, they have since lived with their grandmother.

In a country impoverished by a legacy of genocide, civil war and famine, the vulnerability of children is inherent, and while Cambodia’s AIDS success story imposes complacency with a battle that’s far from over, there is also the risk of forgetting about a new generation of AIDS victims, a group of brave children that fall outside Cambodia’s statistical success.