Living in fear and pain from what they know is an incurable disease which will sooner or later kill them, all HIV-infected people want from society is to be treated just like any other human being. Twenty-year-old Thongla Chantaraksa, or Lek, said her life has been turned upside down since a medical check-up two years
Aado,15, and his 12-year-old brother have been unable to return to their village in Chiang Mai hills following the death of their Aids-infected parents two years ago. Their parents home was burnt down by superstitious neighbours. The boys have no home to stay and they have no relatives to turn to for shelter. The t
Sensational coverage of attacks by a man wielding what he claims to be an Aids-tainted syringe is aggravating discrimination against people with HIV, an activist group said yesterday. The media and officials had been irresponsible in suggesting the attacker was himself infected with the virus, said the National Network
Aids has infected more than 900,000 people in Thailand and has claimed more than 30,000 lives since 1984, according to a Public Health Ministry report. The study unveiled at a meeting of the national Aids prevention committee on Wednesday showed an increase in reported Aids cases between 1984 to February 1999. Figu
Tears rolled down the cheeks of 27-year-old Lamai yesterday when she said she wished state hospitals had offered free anti-retroviral drugs to HIV-positive pregnant women much earlier. Had the medicine been available during the days of my pregnancy, my daughter would probably not have contracted Aids ... and she would
Despite being enlisted in the nation s Essential Drug List which will take effect on January 29, HIV/Aids patients will continue to find it difficult to gain access to anti-retroviral drugs such as AZT , ddI and ddC , a symposium was told yesterday.
Phra Khru Samuwichian Khunadhammo. A lot of people infected with HIV come to me with their problems ... I think, therefore, I should do something to help them. I was under tremendous pressure. Oy, a Chiang Mai native in her early twenties, looked up from her tightly clasped hands. Painful memories poured out like a tor
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