News Forum - 4 billion baht budget to tackle HIV & STDs in Thailand’s teens

[Thaiger]

Thai teenagers are more at risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV infection than adults says the Thai government and that is why it has approved a budget of nearly four million baht to tackle the issue. The Deputy Spokeswoman of the PM Office, Ratchada Thanadirek, revealed that people aged between 15 to 24 years old are more likely to get an HIV infection, and an STD, especially gonorrhoea. Ratchada made known that Thailand had 520,000 HIV cases last year, the figure is expected to increase by 6,500 cases this year and that most of those people would be […]

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[Marc26]

My wife just said last week she read a lot of young Thais are getting syphilis 

[gazmo16]

As well as throwing money at the problem maybe there is a need for proper sex education  to be taught in schools . 

Prevention is better than cure and the youth of Thailand are not even taught the basics according  to my Thai friends . 

[Pi_Tim]

12 hours ago, Marc26 said:

My wife just said last week she read a lot of young Thais are getting syphilis 

My doctor told me that syphilis has been on the rise indeed

[Pi_Tim]

I wonder how the money is spent .... I discovered few weeks ago that Thai FDA approved in 2019 the sale of HIV home test kit in pharmacy.

I was surprised, because I never saw such a kit sold in Thailand. I decided to check, and went to 5 different pharmacies (independents and chains), not one of them sold these kits !!!

I went on line and found a kit for ... 400 THB  and price was on promotion -40% !!! Out of factory, these kits costs less than 0.5 USD !! (I did a research on it 10 years ago). 

Who is going to buy a kit at 400 THB ?? And why pharmacy do not sell them ??

Is there a really will to tackle HIV ?