MHS-2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Wen Jiabao, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Hun Sen
19 Dec 2016
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Cohen: two hard-hit countries offer rare success stories: thailand and cambodia. 100% condom program that, with help from sex workers themselves, aims to persuade everyone selling or paying for sex to use a condom with each encounter. Both the thai and cambodian programs have achieved even more impressive results among specific high-risk groups. Consistent condom use by cambodia"s brothel-based sex workers increased and hiv prevalence in that group plummeted. The thai success was extremely heartening for everyone doing hiv prevention on a national level, there really had not been a demonstration that a heterosexual epidemic could be changed by behavioral interventions and condom campaigns. Today, leading aids epidemiologists routinely cite cambodia and thailand as examples of how aggressive prevention campaigns championed by enlightened governments can dramatically slow the spread of hiv. Hill tribes speak their own languages, and many people here understand little thai, which means that the bulk of hiv/aids education campaigns in thailand have no impact on them.
