Angkor Hospital for Children

Angkor Hospital for Children is a charitable hospital located in Siem Reap, Cambodia, that has treated over 900,000 children since 1999. Cambodia is one of the least developed countries in the world. With an average income of about $21 USD per month, very few families can afford to pay for health care. Services at AHC are provided to children free of charge. The hospital offers outpatient, inpatient, acute, emergency, surgical, low-acuity, dental and ophthalmologic care, as well as education and outreach programs.

In addition to providing healthcare, a mission of the hospital is to increase the self-sufficiency of the Cambodian people. It serves as a teaching hospital for Cambodian doctors and nurses, and as a training site for the WHO-developed Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) training program. After the devastation of the country's resources by the Khmer Rouge, only approximately 270 doctors remained in the country. As of 2010, there are approximately 2200 doctors and 374 dentists for the Cambodian population of 13.6 million people. There is a critical need for more fully trained doctors.

Angkor Hospital for Children is partially funded by Friends Without A Border, which has branches in the United States, Japan, and France and though direct contributions Angkor Hospital for Children . FWAB is a registered 501(c)(3) in the United States, which qualifies donations as tax deductible.

Friends Without A Border was founded by Kenro Izu of Japan. He saw the plight of Cambodian children while on a photography trip in Cambodia, and has dedicated his life to improving the lives of Cambodian children.

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Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) is located in Siem Reap, Cambodia, home of the famous Angkor monuments, relics of the Khmer Empire which lasted from the ninth to fifteenth centuries.

The vast majority of children who come to AHC suffer from preventable and treatable illness. In Cambodia it is not uncommon for a child to die from complications of untreated respiratory infections, diarrhea, or illnesses virtually eradicated in the more-developed world. AHC is child and family focused, using a patient’s time at the hospital as an educational opportunity. The hospital provides vaccinations and multivitamins in addition to extensive education on nutrition, wellness, and illness prevention.

AHC also reaches far beyond the hospital doors to provide care to some of its most fragile patients. The HIV/ Homecare Program delivers follow-up treatment and checkups to children who suffer from debilitating illness, including HIV/AIDS, meningitis, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and other chronic conditions. The HIV Homecare program was the first and remains the largest such program outside the capital, Phnom Penh.

AHC is also the largest facility outside of Phnom Penh which offers antiretroviral treatment to pediatric HIV/AIDS patients and currently administers this life-prolonging medication to hundreds of children.