Epidemiology (Asia)

AIDS Tarnishes the Golden Triangle

Published in Sex Weekly Plus, November 10th, 1997

HIV infections, already threatening to hit Asia on a massive scale, are growing fastest in some of its least accessible regions around the notorious Golden Triangle, a study showed.

"Mobile populations in areas such as the Golden Triangle ... are highly vulnerable to HIV infection," the Monitoring of AIDS Pandemic (MAP) network said, referring to the region infamous as the world's chief source of opium.

MAP, which groups more than 100 HIV and AIDS experts from 40 countries, issued its findings during a conference in Manila, Philippines on HIV.

The Golden Triangle comprises parts of Burma, Thailand, and Laos, but the report said...

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