Essays: Hope for the Hopeless: A Story of AIDS in Thailand: HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS
HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS
Thailand’s AIDS prevention has been revered as one of the most efficient models in Southeast Asia. By using public-education and safe-sex promotion in the red-light districts, Thailand drastically reduced the number of people being infected with AIDS in the last ten years. Today, however, the epidemic has shifted from sex workers into the everyday society: teens, mothers, fathers, and children. Nok, an AIDS orphan at the Mercy Centre, has the lesions on his legs and back cleaned at the Mercy Centre in Klong Toey Slum in Bangkok, Thailand.
Thailand’s AIDS prevention has been revered as one of the most efficient models in Southeast Asia. By using public-education and safe-sex promotion in the red-light districts, Thailand drastically reduced the number of people being infected with AIDS in the last ten years. Today, however, the epidemic has shifted from sex workers into the everyday society: teens, mothers, fathers, and children. Nok, an AIDS orphan at the Mercy Centre, has the lesions on his legs and back cleaned at the Mercy Centre in Klong Toey Slum in Bangkok, Thailand.
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