Word: thai
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...antiretroviral drugs, but he accidentally left his two-month supply on the train after his most recent visit to the city. "I dared not tell my doctor," he said, "because I felt bad that I was offered this opportunity but I lost my medicine. So I found a Thai drug cocktail that is similar, and I'm taking that now." He doesn't know what the Thai drugs are but was assured by a doctor in his village that they would help. Chances are they...
...didn't happen. Instead, the Thai government launched a comprehensive education and prevention campaign. Brothels started using condoms. Public-service messages were broadcast on radio and television every two hours. Anti-AIDS messages--often served with a healthy dose of sanuk, the Thai sense of playfulness--were spread in schools, hospitals, police stations and courthouses. After peaking at 143,000 in 1991, the annual number of new cases of HIV infection fell to 19,000 in 2003. That still leaves 600,000 Thais living with HIV or AIDS, but it could have been much, much worse...
...scientists and activists from around the world gather this week in Bangkok for the 15th international AIDS conference, two new reports from the U.N. warn that Thailand's triumph may be in jeopardy. While Thai men are no longer visiting brothels in the numbers they once did, there has been an increase in extramarital affairs and casual sex, and condom use has fallen dramatically. Meanwhile, HIV infection rates have spiked among young people, pregnant women and intravenous-drug users...
...Viravaidya, (a.k.a. Mr. Condom), a senator and the principal architect of Thailand's successful anti-AIDS program of the 1990s. "People think because they can't see HIV anymore that we have it kicked, and they are taking risks again." Following the Asia-wide economic crash of 1997, successive Thai governments have slashed budgets for prevention programs to less than half their 1997 levels. Condom funding is down, education programs in schools have ended, and the media campaign has all but disappeared. At the same time, other avenues of infection--such as drug users sharing needles and men having...
...Viravaidya, (a.k.a. Mr. Condom), a senator and the principle architect of Thailand's successful anti-AIDS program of the 1990s. "People think because they can't see HIV anymore that we have it kicked, and they are taking risks again." Following the Asia-wide economic crash of 1997, successive Thai governments have slashed budgets for prevention programs to less than half their 1997 levels. Condom funding is down, education programs in schools have ended, and the media campaign has all but disappeared. Meanwhile, other avenues of infection-such as drug users sharing needles and men having sex with other...