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Bangkok Post - Sunday, February 23, 2003
Paul Chang, the Asian Development Bank's principal education specialist of the Mekong Department, said the 18-month programme would focus on spreading information through secondary school teachers.
"The target is not only school students, but also youths who have left school and the wider community," he said.
The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (Seameo) would oversee formal education outlets while the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation would look into informal means of spreading the message through television, radio and soap operas.
Sornchai Looareesuwan, director of Seameo Thailand, said 36 sites on the border had been chosen for the launch of the programme, which would address the main causes of Aids such as human trafficking and drug abuse.
Schools in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and China would work together.
About 21 million people live in remote mountainous areas of the Greater Mekong Region, where minority women are at risk of HIV/Aids due to poverty, lack of education and health care, and language barriers.
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