Open AccessThailand’s new condom crusade
Author(s) -
Apiradee Treerutkuarkul
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
bulletin of the world health organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1564-0604
pISSN - 0042-9686
DOI - 10.2471/blt.10.010610
Subject(s) - condom , medicine , environmental health , geography , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , syphilis
Thailand's first free condom campaign in the early nineties was so successful that it was widely copied. Government funding for free condoms was cut back in 1998. Now after 12 years and a spike in HIV infections, the scheme has been brought back. Apiradee Treerutkuarkul reports.
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