International (Asia)

Thailand Condom Campaign Reduced AIDS Infections by Fifty Percent

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 12th, 1996

A condom campaign aimed at prostitutes in Thailand has proved a dramatic success, cutting HIV infections in young men in half over the past five years.

"We hope that people making public health decisions elsewhere in the world will profit from the remarkable success" of this effort, wrote doctors from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, who have been tracking the Thai epidemic.

AIDS appeared in Thailand in 1988 and spread rapidly among the country's prostitutes. These women infected their male clients, who took the virus home to their wives.

By 1993, about 750,000 Thais were infected. This is about the same number as...

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