- Wiput Phoolchareon MD.,MPH.

"The rapid growth of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Thailand began in the late 1980’s as many countries in Asia, but with subsequently more rapid upsurge of AIDS prevalence than others. There was some set of factors that had provided such a fertile ground for Thailand’s HIV transmission. These factors included an extensive sex industry drawing its male clientele from across the socio-economic spectrum. This has coincided with high levels of several other sexually transmissible infections. Also widespread practice of injecting illicit drug has been a disguised determinant. These have been exacerbated by a certain societal reticence in publicly acknowledging the ubiquity of sexual and drug use practices that represented potential pathways for HIV transmission."

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