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Home » News from Thailand » Every day 16 new HIV cases in Thailand
Every day 16 new HIV cases in Thailand
Every day, 5.801 people are diagnosed with HIV in Thailand. This year alone, 2015 new cases were registered. In 1,5, Thailand had a total of 2,3 million registered HIV/AIDS patients, which is XNUMX percent of the population.
The figures were announced yesterday by the Bureau of Epidemiology of the Department of Health on World AIDS Day.
The ministry is trying to reduce the number of infections. By 2030, the number of registered HIV cases must be reduced to three new patients per day and the number of deaths must be reduced from 15.000 to 4.000.
The figures for 2015 show that 355.000 patients receive medicines against HIV, which is 33.000 more than in 2014.
HIV
HIV is a virus. It is one of the most common STIs. You can have HIV without knowing it. Therefore, get tested after unsafe sex. HIV cannot yet be cured, but it can be treated very well. Without treatment with HIV inhibitors, you can eventually get AIDS.
If they start doing it in the same way as with traffic victims (so they actually do nothing but just talk), it will be fine, haha.
As far as I know in the sex industry the condom is still a taboo.
Your claims are patently incorrect.
The Thai government assisted by voluntary organizations do a lot of education and prevention instead of doing nothing and just talking as you claim. There are places everywhere where you can get tested for free. If you have HIV, you can be treated for free in the designated clinics and if you are not insured for life, you can get free medicines with the necessary checks. I have seen which medicines people get and those are excellent inhibitors that people also get in the Netherlands.
It is also not correct that condoms are taboo in the sex industry. A good bar or club will always provide free condoms to its employees.
I have some Thai friends who do that volunteer work and educate at schools, special meetings and also many bars and clubs where they also hand out free condoms.
The problem they run into is that the information is almost never given to older youth and not to adolescents, for example.
But the biggest problem in Thailand – and I think maybe a little bit in the Netherlands as well – is shame. Shame that can go so far that HIV patients do not want to be treated for fear that those around them will find out, eventually resulting in death.
A mistake above.
Hardly ever given to older youth must of course be almost never given to younger youth.
Absolutely true TH.NL. Thailand has been praised all over the world for its policies in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, which have been very successful. Schools are reasonably well informed and signs with warnings are posted everywhere.
That turnaround from looking away and doing nothing ended in the early XNUMXs (then there were already millions of HIV positives) and is mainly due to Mr. Condom as he is called, Meechai Viravaidya. I still remember images on TV in the Netherlands that showed how he, as a minister (should also do Prayut), handed out condoms in Patpong and Pattaya.
The new cases that are still there are mainly from intravenous drug users and homosexual contacts, to a much lesser extent than in the past due to prostitution.
Die Meechai is also a successful businessman with a good cause.
For example, he has a chain of restaurants called 'Cabbages and Condoms', one of which I know, namely in Sukhumvit road soi 10 (or 12?), highly recommended culinary but also for the ambiance and decor, in which condoms are generously sprinkled .
The name recalls earlier actions by Meechai, in which he propagates the distribution of condoms everywhere in the public space and even in the vegetable stalls in the markets.
Kuhn Meechai is now a member of the (unelected) Thai parliament and was also a member of the committee that created the new constitution.
In the Netherlands, 1000 people per year are newly diagnosed with HIV, which is 3 per day, compared to the 4 times larger population of Thailand, that would be 12 per day. So not a very big difference.
https://aidsfonds.nl/hiv-aids/feiten-en-cijfers/hiv-in-nederland
A question !!!
What should you do if you are sure that a gentleman is HIV infected and has no problem with it my age, plus 70?
They are, his own words in a heated discussion a year ago.
He prided himself on bringing home at least three ladies from the surrounding bars every week and having sex with them without a condom.
To my stunned reaction that he didn't care much but that he was destroying the lives of the ladies, there was little emotion.. It clearly didn't affect him.
Now a year later, one of the ladies is in the final phase of her life. I personally think she won't make it to 2018 anymore. AIDS is active in her body, the poor thing.
I don't dare say out loud who infected her, but inside I'm almost sure.
My question, how would you react?
Gr. Hank.
In my circle of friends, several have already fallen over the years,
also caused by unsafe handling.
At first glance there was nothing to see, during the middle phase it went fast,
the incubation period can be up to 20 years.
Report it to the police. I think this is murder.
Scandalous. No words for it. If you have good contact with one or more barmaids, I would report it very discreetly but clearly. There's a good chance this will do the rounds soon. You may be able to save lives this way.
The police… no idea if they will do anything with it…