Amanda finally back in hospital after HIV treatment denied

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The 29-year old is being admitted at Sungai Buloh Hospital for scans and X-rays.  Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/08/27/amanda-finally-back-in-hospital-after-hiv-treatment-denied   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #AmandaMeiChu #MalaysianAIDSCouncil #MalaysianAIDSFoundation

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00:00As a frail Amanda Mei Chu and her adoptive father Dominic Damian stepped out of their car,

00:09their eyes fell on the hospital building, a sight that brought not just relief but hope after years

00:15of uncertainty. Today, Amanda was finally admitted to Sungai Bulo Hospital for scans and x-rays

00:23after being denied HIV treatment for eight years. Yesterday, FMT highlighted the story of Amanda,

00:32an abandoned baby born with HIV who had been on treatment since childhood but had her care

00:37abruptly cut off after being told she was not a Malaysian citizen. On the same day, the Malaysian

00:45AIDS Council and the Malaysian AIDS Foundation immediately stepped in to help, something Damian

00:51said was only possible because of FMT's media coverage. Besides MAC and MAF, there has been

01:00an exceptional number of people who just, strangers, kids, kin, who have just come forward and supported.

01:09Damian said Amanda's case shows how Malaysia's stateless children often fall through the cracks,

01:15pointing out how she was unable to access regular treatment despite living her whole life in the

01:21country. There is a birth certificate, but there is no background of a parent. Any abandoned child,

01:28you can't trace the parent. That's unfortunately what happens to them. My daughter, my daughter is

01:35just a symptom of the stateless children in the country. Any and every child hopefully would have,

01:44who's born in this country, I hope they receive treatment.

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