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Project Result/Case Study
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONTROL THROUGH BETTER HYGIENE AND SANITATION

The second Greater Mekong Subregion-Regional Communicable Diseases Control project (ADB/GMS-CDC2) applies Community-based Communicable Disease Control (CDC) intervention in 90 villages selected from 36 remote communes in 10 provinces of Cambodia: Kampot, Takeo, Kandal, Prey Veng, Svay Rieng, Tbaung Khmum, Kratie, Stung Treng, Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri. 

CDC2 Project is funded by the Asian Development Bank and focuses mainly on the establishment of mechanisms to improve community for capacity for surveillance and response to priority diseases, and promotes community participation to improve family and community health status.

Kaam Samnar krom is one among those 90 villages, having 567 Khmer community households with total population of 2,224 people including 1,207 female, located in Kaam Samnar commune, Leuk Dek district, Kandal province, and lies along the edge of Lower Mekong River, closely adjacent to Ang Yang province of Vietnam, just 1 Km from the border.

Sitting with other village members, Mr. Yann Yorn aged 60 years, Chief of Kaam Samnar krom village recognizes that project offers many benefits to people in the village.

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