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Bavet

Bavet
Phnom Penh
Prey Veng

Neak Leuong

Svay Rieng Tay Ninh Province

SR town
Moc Bai
Bavet Go Dau
Ben Cau
Trang Bang

HCMC

MARPS in Bavet

Entertainment workers
- mostly Vietnamese
Brothels
Massage
Karaoke
Escorts
Discoteques
 Bavet,
Cambodia
RHAC – 6 casinos

CRC – 5 casinos

CRC – rolling staff

Tay Ninh, Vietnam

STI referral to
RHAC and Tay
Ninh
- outreach in
B

Qualitative Findings - EWs

y EWs are migrants who spend long periods of time

away from home
y Cambodian EWs are likely to have more awareness
of STI/HIV/AIDS than Vietnamese EWs
y Most Vietnamese EWs cannot read or speak Khmer
and do not have access to Vietnamese materials
 Qualitative Findings -

Factory workers and rolling staff:

y Live not far from home and return regularly
y Most are not at high risk for STI/HIV
y Rolling staff have higher awareness on HIV/AIDS
y Both groups have sexual relations with boyfriends
y Some rolling staff have sex with casino clients
Moto-taxi drivers and rolling staff had the
highest knowledge on HIV/AIDS among
Vietnamese

Identified Gaps

Transactional sex was yThe RHAC clinic

widely available to established, slow uptake of
casino clients … services
arranged by casino
staff, at nearby massage yInitially not enough
buildings or at Vietnamese speakers for
traditional brothels. rolling staff
Clinical STI and HIV
yOutreach and clinic
services were not readily
available nearby. services had no
Vietnamese speakers.
Nov 2007 yOutreach only to owners
of entertainment venues
 Identified Gaps

y Massage services - Under

separate
available in casinos management
y Massage/sex
workers invited - Escorts hard to
into casinos access

y Rolling staff - Under separate

management

Strategies/activities
Entertainment workers - Bavet

Increasing uptake of Supporting PAS/RHAC

STI services y Workshops w owners
y Mobile team in RHAC y Vietnamese speakers as
clinic outreach workers
y Vietnamese speakers as y Outreach and peer
outreach workers education for Cambodia
and Vietnamese
y Also in Svay Rieng town
 MARPS - Bavet

Bavet
y Assisting CRC to reach rolling staff and uptake of STI
services
y Workshops for moto-taxi drivers
y Factory workers
Moc Bai
y Workshops for moto-taxi drivers
y Workshops for truck drivers?
y Outreach for rolling staff
y Moto-taxi drivers and rolling staff had the highest
knowledge on HIV/AIDS Baseline surveys

Prey Veng
Neak Loeung
- site of a major
river crossing with
JICA to build a
bridge
- Busy commercial
area
- Vietnamese
communities
- EWs and MSM
 Identifying Gaps

y Vietnamese communities of 2nd and 3rd generation

families – 5,000 residents or more.
y A small number of young local residents are working
in local brothels
y Some have not been to school, they have no
citizenship in Cambodia or Vietnam
y They can speak Khmer and have some outreach from
NGO/PAS

y Strategies
y Neak Leoung
• Support for RHAC and
PAS for outreach and
peer education
• Vietnamese speakers
as outreach workers
• Workshops for truck
drivers, moto taxi
drivers
 Tay Ninh

- Moc Bai
- Ben Cau town
- Go Dau
Entertainment hot spot areas
Trang Bang
Hot spots and migrant labour

Tay Ninh

y Periodic meetings with Owners in entertainment

setting in all 3 districts
y Communication activities for risk groups in the
community
y IEC strategies for MARPS

y Factory workers in residential areas

y Workshops in factories for management
 Vietnamese in Cambodia

Vietnamese from Sub-project 8 Response

Tay Ninh Uptake of STI
- mostly rolling staff HIV/trafficking
Other southern awareness
provinces Uptake of service
- mostly EWs Vietnamese speakers
Tay Ninh & elsewhere IEC strategies
- entrepreneurs/workers
Resident in Cambodia Vietnamese speakers
- mostly Neak Leuong Peer education
 Resources/partnerships

y Quarterly CBC meeting with partners is the main

guidance for cross-border activities
y TN PHD initiates resources for mobile team and
other contributions
y FHI -
supports CRC program and collaboration
pushed for STI services in Tay Ninh

Sustainability

Key processes
y Vietnamese speakers for outreach
y Vietnamese speakers for STI services
Capacity building
y Adding to analysis of MARPS and key approaches
with IEC strategies
y Establishing cordinating mechanism - bringing
together local authorities from both countries and
(I)NGOs