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"Mr
Condom: AIDS on the rise again"
The
Star (www.thestar.com.my)
(02/10/05)
BANGKOK: AIDS is making a deadly comeback in Thailand. The country of 63
million people was once considered a model for the fight against the
disease, but the man behind that success says it has returned to the days of
ignorance.
In the early 1990s, AIDS crusader Mechai Viravaidya launched an aggressive
condom distribution and public education campaign, which helped reduce the
number of infections from nearly 143,000 in 1991 to 19,000 last year –
according to official statistics.
But Mechai believes there were actually at least 25,000 new infections last
year.
“It's clear that AIDS has returned to rise again,” said Mechai, who is
popularly known as Mr Condom. — AP
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