0.63 daily (respectively) (WHO, 2009). In some rural areas,the percentage of the population living below the poverty line is as high as 79.0% (WHO SIS, 2006; WHO 2009).
The target population during the initial phase of implementation will include women living in the Phnom Penh metropolitan area (n= 1,060,000), but at later stages the project will expand to include additional referrals from provincial areas. Although readily treatable, cervical cancer remains the number one cause of cancer related death among Cambodian women-responsible for 38% of deaths. |