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Bangkok Post - October 1, 2001
Teerawat Khamthita
Public Health Minister Sudarat Keyuraphan said it was increasingly likely these two deadly diseases would quickly spread along the border.
The minister on Saturday went to Tachilek in Burma, opposite Mae Sai district, to co-chair a health exhibition with her Burmese counterpart Maj-Gen Ket Sein.
Government spokesman Yongyuth Tiyapairat said ties between Burma and Thailand would improve if the two countries joined forces to tackle the diseases.
Sources said many Burmese and Shan women increasingly crossed the border to work in Mae Sai brothels.
Young girls were reportedly paid 3,000-5,000 baht to relinquish their virginity. But brothel operators invariably received half the girls' money.
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