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FOUR CONTRIES PROJECT :
ALCOHOL SITUATION IN
CAMBODIA
BY
SOPIT NASUEB
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Country background information
Alcohol consumption situation
Alcohol impact situation
Alcohol supply situation
Alcohol control policy
Challenges
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Country Background information
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Alcohol consumption situation
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Alcohol consumption situation
• Estimates from key alcohol experts showing
proportion of adult males and females who had
been abstaining. Data is for after year 1995
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Alcohol consumption situation
• In a survey of 101
positive HIV/AIDS
patients (median age
32 years), 46.5% of the
male drinkers were
considered to be heavy
drinkers consuming
more than 3 drinks a
day
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Alcohol consumption situation
• Unrecorded alcohol consumption
– The unrecorded alcohol consumption in Cambodia
is estimated to be 0.5 litres pure alcohol per capita
for population older than 15 for the years after
1995 (estimated by a group of key alcohol
experts).
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Alcohol impact situation
• Social and cultural transformations have
shaped people’s exposure to, and capacity to
deal with, alcohol consumption situation.
• Health – HIV/AIDS, effect of alcohol on job
(Beer girl), unsafe sex.
• Youth – Negative lifestyle factors: tobacco
use and excessive alcohol consumption.
• Violence – Domestic violence link between
alcohol, sexuality and violence.
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Alcohol supply situation
• In late 2006, Cambodian industry
leaders Heineken and Carlsberg
and their partner brands – eg.,
Angkor, Geinness, Tiger, ABC,
Anchor – and breweries, controlling
70-80% of the market
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• Promotion
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Alcohol supply situation
• Such numbers led the company to invest $2
million in a Kingdom Breweries plant, located
on a former Nestle factory site in Phnom
Penh. The site is expected to begin
operations next year, producing beer
products aimed at the top end of the local
beer market.
• United Breweries Group, announced in 2009
that it would start supplying Southeast Asia
with Kingfisher beer bottled in Cambodia
starting in early 2010
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Alcohol supply situation
• In mid-December 2009 Germany's Ziemann
Group inked a $60 million joint venture
agreement with Cambodia's Chip Mong Group
to produce a "world-class beer“
• Two months earlier San Miguel Breweries
International announced that it had joined
forces with Phnom Penh-based KT
Investments to find a suitable site to place a
new brewery near the capital.
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Alcohol control policy
• Cambodia has no alcohol control policy
• Alcohol Policy Development Working Group
under leadership of Ministry of Health has
started to draft a policy
• Cambodia has no age limitation.
• Cambodia has no alcohol ban—places,
occasion, time…etc.
• The general election in 2008 had been
banned during the cooling and election days
because an invention petition from NGOs.
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Alcohol control policy
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Challenges
• Less experience on alcohol policy development
• Alcohol Drinking is deep rooted in Cambodia that it is
difficult to tackle
• Limited budget
• No central agency and the lack of specialized
personnel to maintain control problems caused by
alcohol.
• Less evidence-based research and data update.
• No data on government expenditures to give
treatment for those who are alcohol harmfulness.
• Senior executives of the country has not focused on
alcohol problems actually
• Lessons from smoking is an important example for
driving alcohol control policies
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Reference
• WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004.
• Bryony Taylor. Partying Youngsters Raise Glass,
Profits for Cambodia's Beer Industry
http://www.allvoices.com/contributednews/5081743-partying-youngsters-raise-glassprofits-for-cambodias-beer-industry/images
• Mom Kong. The situation in Cambodia
http://www.ias.org.uk/resources/publications/theglob
e/globe200103-04/gl200103-04_p26.html
• Gender Based Violence and HIV/AIDS in Cambodia.
http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/05-0492.pdf.
• www.who.int
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…Thank You…
Cambodia Team
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