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Bangkok Post - July 15, 2004
Anucha Charoenpo
The campaign, carried out by 14 networks on HIV/Aids, including the Access Group, Sexual Diversity Network, Interface Network and Empower, passed down Narathiwat-Ratchanakharin road and Silom road before reaching Lumpini Park.
About 200 students from schools in the city joined the activities by handing out condoms to onlookers. Information on HIV/Aids prevention was also handed out along the way by the campaigners.
Nimit Thien-udom, a coordinator of the parade campaign and director of Access Network, said the campaign was aimed at educating the public about HIV/Aids prevention and raising their awareness about the pandemic.
Although the Aids situation had improved, prevention measures must be continued, he said.
Krongjai Inthasuwan, coordinator of the Interface Network, said she and 100 other members of the network had joined the campaign because she felt the epidemic was becoming a "threat" to all people, regardless of their religious beliefs.
Danai Rinjongrat, coordinator of the Sexual Diversity Network, said that apart from promoting Aids prevention measures, his network wanted to help the public understand that HIV/Aids was not something that had come about because of the homosexual population. Anyone could be infected due to promiscuous behaviour, or not practising safe sex, he said.
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