The Ministry of Health wants to promote the use of condoms in order to reduce the number of HIV infections. At present, five to six thousand people become infected with HIV each year. the virus. The ministry wants to reduce that number to less than a thousand within 10 years.
Montinee, deputy director of the Aids and Sexually Transmitted Disease Division of the Department of Disease Control, believes that the objectives are achievable, but the high-risk groups such as gays, transgenders, prostitutes and prisoners must be more accessible.
Montinee says that the number of STDs has increased by a factor of five in the past four years. Fourteen teens between the ages of 15 and 19 are infected every day, 69,7 percent of them with gonorrhea and 39,3 percent with syphilis. Despite this significant increase, research shows that only 45 percent of teenagers regularly use a condom.
Source: Bangkok Post
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The solution, of course, is to deploy the police and arrest teenagers who behave un-Thai. Simply banning expressions of love at school will also help. Children must be taught the right norms, values and abstinence. Why should you give good sex education if you can mainly blame the girls for bad behavior? 80 extra hours of Buddhist education really pays off! Real!
No roses at school:
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/culture/2020/02/14/school-bans-roses-on-v-day-to-preserve-students-moral-purity/
Police hunt teenagers during Valentine's Day:
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2020/02/13/polices-valentine-crackdown-questioned-by-women-rights-activists/
More lessons on norms and values (is about violence, but I think it can also be extended to other areas that have to do with morality):
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1857919/religion-not-the-answer
NB: it should be clear that I believe in better education, more critical thinking, discussion and less shame on subjects that are difficult enough anyway. Boys and girls should learn that their sexual jitters are not strange, but that they should respect each other and not put pressure on them. Boys are just as guilty or innocent as girls. If condoms and such are available with less embarrassment, that will also help.
The Thai Minister of Health should better promote this condom instead of the useless mouth masks that have to show the world, in a herd-like duty, that they have everything under control for particulate matter and the prevention of coronus.
But yes, how else can you wear face masks, but also demonstrate publicly that Thailand has had HIV under control for years.
Wearing a condom, which according to the WHO would certainly have more effect, if these mouth cloths are delusional, you cannot of course present in public.555
I don't think there is any other developing country where you can have a Mr. Condom has been promoting the use of condoms publicly for decades and has won international awards for doing so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL9TBKSdHXU
Dear Chris, That with Mr. Condom may all be true, only when I look here in the village, and then that is certainly not the only village in Thailand, I'm afraid, the sex education is very bad.
Parents who often, if at all, have had a miserable education themselves, often do not have sufficient knowledge on this subject to pass it on to their children.
Often this theme is covered by a veil of taboo and shame, and therefore too little is addressed.
May be different in secondary schools, or in the environment where you are wrong, but for many this good information comes with a resolute warning, demonstrably too late.
Excellent decision by Deputy Director Montinee of the AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Disease Division of the Department of Disease Control and immediately hand out face masks.
2 face mask per 1 condoms very good idea, they are doing a good job there???
On a population of almost 70 million and a living sex business, I find this number of infections very neat, if not very low.
Most STDs are treatable and all because of the crooked skaters of this world because without demand there is no supply.
I will therefore not be surprised if Durex will soon release a world index again and that the marketing soldiers will have done their job again.
I think the latter is the most dangerous. The freelance journalist who can tell any good story with a low income, keeping in mind the game “government says what and which commercial partner is appropriate so that I can generate income through awareness promotion”
@Johnny BG The medical sector, including preventive healthcare, also lives by the laws of the market. How could that be otherwise in an economically hyper-competitive world?
Deputy director Montinee of the Aids and Sexually Transmitted Disease Division of the Department of Disease Control proposes a preventive target group policy based on risk differentiation.
That seems to me to be contemporary state of the art policy.
Unfortunately, his politically competent authority, Mr. “Westerdam mouth cap minister” is not in favor of contemporary state of the art policy. This canacannabis Bhumjaithai political vane has now amply demonstrated this.
Wouldn't it be wiser to aim your arrows at the real policy makers instead of stigmatizing sex workers and condom manufacturers?